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(7.) 
Bddhd laments her separation from Krishn , and charges the seasons with 
adding to her pangs. 
1. Friend, friend, how can I keep my patience ? See, see, how the 
southern wind hath watched till my Lord had gone to a far country, and 
now consumetli my body. 
3. The rays of the moon, the leaf of the champ ah f and sandal, have 
given me sorrow, and passed away. Even the winter consumeth my body en¬ 
tirely ; no one is friendly to one whose husband is away. 
5. A flowery grove consumeth mine eyes, and the voice of the cuckoo 
mine ears ; How can I bear the unbearable pangs of love ;—Every instant 
my life departeth from me. 
7. The hot season hath passed, and the rains have begun. On all 
sides the clouds are piled: at such a time as this my lord remaineth stead¬ 
fastly in a foreign country, and to-day hath not returned to his home. 
9. Be firm. Before long thou wilt meet thy lord, and the (sun of) 
thy separation will set. ILarkh Natli the poet singeth, and king Lakshmis- 
var Sill understandeth the meaning. 
(S.) 
Jddtdhd laments her separation from her beloved to her friend , and accuses 
the moon of aggravating her pangs. 
1. 0 friend, 0 friend, help me against them, else my soul will be 
distracted, and my body continually burned; for the moon-beams are 
irresistible. 
3. The moon is beloved of the water-lily, and was born in the milky 
ocean ; it and the (pure-white) jasmine flower have the same effect. But 
still it continually consumeth my body and of a truth I find that its heart 
is black. 
5. Why did not the ocean conceal it in its bosom, as he doth firef 
in his heart. Why did not the god of love drink him off, as Siva swallowed 
the deadly lcdlkut.% 
7. Even though Rahu, the demon of eclipse, swallow him, he still 
surviveth and woundeth the heart of her who is far from her Lord ; behold, 
the ill-natured, cruel, pain-giving one, is he who is irresistible. 
9. Be firm. Before long thou wilt meet thy lord and the moon will 
be sweetly cool. Harkh Nath the poet singeth what hath been revealed 
unto King Lakshmisvar STh. 
* Michclia champaca. 
f Allusion to sub-marine fire. 
I A deadly poison swallowed by S'iva at the churning' of the Ocean. 
