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4. With what act of submission wilt thou be pleased ? Place thy 
lotus feet upon my body (and they will be but) an ornament to me 
(and not a penance). 
5. The wise Umapati saith a true saying. The Lord of the Hin¬ 
dus knoweth the mother of the universe. 
III. 
Here, the distress of the soul imagining itself to be deserted by God 
is allegorically depicted. 
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Translation 3. 
1. O friend, be not unhappy. I shall but enjoy the fruit of my 
own fate. Wherefore dost thou give up thy life (in sorrow for me) ? 
2. Hopefully did I bring my love to Hari, and there I obtained 
but disappointment, I slept beneath the shade of a cloud, (but it passed 
away and) in the end the burning (rays of the sun fell upon me). 
3. Never again will I reveal my love, for its only fruit is slighting. 
If thou moisten a stone ten thousand times with ambrosia, never couldst 
thou soften it. 
4. If he have forgotten the manner of his former love, the fault is 
not his in the least* (but that of his inborn nature). Even as if thou 
wert to cherish a snake with many efforts, still it would not remem¬ 
ber thy tender care, 
5. The wise Umapati saith, Hari will be appeased, and (the sun of) 
his pride will set. May the king of all kings, the Lord of the Hindus 
live, and with him the queenf in whom his heart delights. 
* Tfw ^ ‘ not even a raW or ‘ small weight.’ 
t is the principal queen who sits on the throne with her husband 
and was proclaimed queen at the time that he was proclaimed king. 
