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3. How many days will this ill day remain ? Who will tell me and 
explain ? 0 friend, the Creator hath become opposed to me. Who will 
be my help ? 
4. Jayanand the Karan Kayasth sang, be not monrnfnl in thy 
heart. Patience is best of all. The bee will come to its home. 
XIII. 
Bhanunath. 
In the following song the allegory is the same as in the last. 
I JIT^t II 
sif5i5T wt% I 3im% n 
%51 5if5i "ffW? n 
lift: I ftrsT ft??;?! ?rcrci n 
5Tpt I fro f^JT sfttifcr ?;'? ci^ itT% ii 
WTPPrsf 1 ii u 
Translation 13. 
1. Learn and understand the ways of Yadupati (Krishna.) The 
Lady is distraught with the fresh separation. 
2. A bed of lotuses pleaseth her not. Gazing at his path she pass- 
eth the day. 
3. Some are anointing her body with (cooling) sandal paste and 
some say that there is but little life* in her. 
4. To what can she have recourse ? Even the cool rays of the 
moon continually burn her. 
5. She is as it were performing a penance with a fixed desire ; for 
night and day she utters but his name. 
6. Saith the poet Bhanunath, the wise Maheswar Singh under¬ 
stands the sentiment. 
XIV. 
Chaturbhuj. 
An allegory explaining desire for communion of the soul with God. 
sfp cw ^ pfjreni, Jiraw, pp ijftpp snJi n 
p|fH*ip ^ ^ JTKP II 
* hero means ‘ life,’ the Skr. ‘ birth.’ 
