Kavyaprakasha 2.370

2.370

{preyān so 'yamapākṛtaḥ saśapathaṃ pādānataḥ kāntayā
dvitrāṇyeva padāni vāsabhavanādyāvanna yātyunmanāḥ /
tāvatpratyuta pāṇisaṃpuṭagalannīvīnibandhaṃ dhṛto
dhāvitveva kṛtapraṇāmakamaho premṇo vicitrā gatiḥ //98//}
(Vāmana's Kāvyālaṅkārasūtravṛtti 3,2.15)

'That beloved, dismissed with oaths by his mistress though bowed at her feet,
had not yet taken even two or three steps away from the bedchamber, crestfallen,
when, run after and caught hold of by her whose knot of the lower garment was slipping from her cupped hands,
she bowed down as it were: ah, the wondrous course of love!'