102 maithil cnRESTOMATHY. [Extra No. 
3. 0 God ! my fate hath been reversed. My husband hath given up 
his former love (for me). 
4. The grief of my heart is like an arrow, but how can one feel the 
pain borne by another ? 
5. Bidyapati the poet saith, Victory to Ham. What can a husband 
do when the fates are against him ? 
(59.) 
Hadha enigmatically describes her woe. 
1. O Madhab, 0 Madhab. be attentive (to my words). Separated 
from thee I will take poison. # 
2. My face like the first, twenty-fifth, and twenty-eighth (letters),f 
hath been withered by snow. 
3. The twenty-fifth, eighteenth, and twentieth (letters)J burn my 
body. The third § after the son || of earth taketh my life away. 
4. Remember, 0 Madhab, the affection of those days when the lion^j 
went to the house of the fish. 
5. Bidyapati saith, write the letters in alphabetical order. The wise 
can explain them. 
(GO.) 
The same in the form of a letter. 
1. a The grove is full of flowers, and I sit apart: I use the collyrium 
of my eye for dark ink. 
2. “ I write upon the leaf of a lotus with my nails these seven 
letters.”^* 
3. First she wrote the first day of spring, secondly, she wrote that 
the third day was passed.ft 
* The number of or “worlds” is fourteen, and that of fx?i[ or “ seasons’* 
six; and fourteen and six are equal to <ff q “ twenty ” = “ poison.” 
t or “ lotus.” 
X “Love.” 
§ see Vocabulary, s. v. 
|| 
H Any word commencing with q (here q^^f) is represented by the - r 
and any word commencing with q (here qq;) is represented by Hence 
the sentence means “when you put your head under my foot.” 
## efi.qq. There is here a play on the word vide Vocabulary 
s. v. ^qq. 
ft Cf. 
