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BIDYAPATI. 
Ill 
6. “ My mother-in-law is in the house, but she is blind and cannot 
see. My child does not understand my speech.” 
7. Bidyapati says, 0 wondrous love ! according to the length of 
separation new love is produced. 
(81-) 
S'iya’s Marriage. 
A friend of TJma laments her lot. 
1. One who wanders in every house from the beginning of his life* 
How can he he married ? 
2. We are going now to make him the bridegroom of Gauri. How 
can this be allowed P 
8 & 4. Where is his house P Where is the courtyard thereof ? Who 
are his parents ? He has no fixed home. Who will take him for a son-in- 
law ? 
5 & 6. Who has settled this marriage (with S'iva) ? None is his 
relation. The genealogist who fixed this marriage is a contemptible one. 
7. He has neither a family nor relations. His dependents are ghosts 
and demons. 
8. Considering this my body burns, who can hear the thorn in my 
heart ? 
9 & 10. Bidyapati says, 0 pretty one, keep this in your mind. He 
who is destined to be your consort will become your husband. 
(82.) 
A friend of Uma addresses her mother , on the occasion of S'iva’s coming to 
marry her. 
1. O mother, such a wilful bridegroom have they brought, the 
Himalay blushed as he gazed on him. 
2. Such a fool is he that he cannot even ride a horse, even a fully 
equipped one. # 
8. He has spread a tiger’s skin over a bull, and tied it with a snake 
for a girth. 
4. Patter, patter, goes his tabor, and rattle, rattle go the bones in 
his body. 
5. Gobble, gobble, he gorges himself with Indian hemp, and smack, 
smack go his cheeks thereat. 
* Mr. Fallon translates ejjf here by ‘pace’, hut I do not find this meaning of the 
word current in Mithila. ojjj is elsewhere in Mithila used to signify equipment. 
