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BIDYAPATI. 
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4. She could not write the one which followeth spring, for the first 
sentence was putting her life to an end (through remembrance of her 
husband). 
5. Bidyapati saitli, count the letters. Those who are wise can tell 
the purport. 
( 61 .) 
1. My mind is distraught, and my husband is in a foreign country. 
When I gaze upon the moon, flames rise in my body. 
2. The pains of love penetrate to the bottom of my heart. To 
whom shall I tell my distress, for my husband is in a far country. 
3 & 4. My kirtle remembering his love, and that he is not come 
home, and (hearing) the intolerable songs of the frogs and cuckoos, is 
slipping down to-day. * My love is great, but I cannot find my husband. 
5. Bidyapati saith, hear and take it for granted, King Kaghab 
Sik can understand young love (lit. the five-arrowed one). 
( 62 .) 
1. My husband went away giving me the first and the eleventh 
(letters),* but it is many days since the term of the promise expired. 
2. My age is the Pleasure of Love in visible form, and yet my hus¬ 
band hath not shown his face. 
3. Now, O friend, my chastity can no longer remain safe. Day by 
day the arrow of love will become doubly strong. 
4. I cannot even endure the light of the moon nor of the sun, even 
the application of sandal-wood seemeth to me like an intolerable arrow. 
5. Bidyapati saith, hear, 0 good woman. Have patience and Murari 
will meet thee. 
(63.) 
An enigmatical letter from RaclJia to KrisJin. 
1. 0 Madhab, I understand thee now. 
2. Though thou madest a hundred thousand promises to return, of what 
effect are they ? 
3. Take fourf from forty and divide it by four, and my husband and 
I are the result. 
4. The deceitful Kanhaia doth not know how to enjoy caresses ; he 
hath brought my life to an end. 
* = “ promise” in Maithili. 
t 40 — 4 = 36. 3 ¥ ° = 9 = which means also “ new,” “ youthful.” 
