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BIDYAPATI. 
(55.) 
1 & 2. 0 Madhab, go not thou to a far country. Thou wilt take 
with thee all my happiness, and what wilt thou bring me in return ? 
3. As soon as thou enterest the forest thou wilt change thy mind, 
and thou wilt, 0 my lord, forget me. 
4. I will not beg for a diamond, nor a pearl, nor for a ruby, but for 
thee, my love. 
5. When thou, my love, didst depart, mine eyes were filled with 
tears, nor could I even see thee. 
6. Though (he) dwelleth with me in the same city, my love is the 
slave of others. How will he fulfil my desires. 
7. Fair women when with their husbands, like stars around the 
moon, are happy in their love. 
8. Bidyapati saith, hear, 0 good woman, keep the True Essence 
in thine heart. 
(56.) 
1. My husband hath left me and gone to a far country, with whom 
shall I pass my young life P 
2. My bed is soft and scented with flowers. How thirsty my bee 
must be where’er he dwelleth. 
3. Remembering, remembering, my heart will not remain still, and 
my body is burnt in the fire of love. 
4. Bidyapati the poet saith, Victory to Ram. What can a hus¬ 
band do when the fates are against him. 
(57.) 
1. The damsel, in her desolation, went to her bed-chamber, saying, 
“What hath God written in my destiny ?” 
2. She rose distraught, and sat with bended head, and looking round 
her, became ashamed.* 
3. My beloved one hath gone ; and I used to play with the two hands 
of my husband. 
4. Bidyapati saith, O wondrous love! according to the length of 
separation is new love produced. 
(58.) 
1. My Madhab wandered to a far country, and no one, 0 friend, 
giveth me any news of his welfare. 
2. May Ins life be long, even though he remain a hundred thousand 
kos away from me ; it is my misfortune, and he is not to blame (for this). 
* i. e. awoke from a dream about her absent husband. 
