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# Rasarnavasudhakara 2.263

Rasārṇavasudhākara 2.263

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.263](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.2.263)

yathā-  
pratiśrutaṃ dyūta-paṇaṃ sakhībhyo  
vivakṣati preyasi kuñcita-bhrūḥ |  
kaṇṭhaṃ karābhyām avalambya tasya  
mukhaṃ pidhatte svakapolakena ||

> As in:  
> When her beloved wishes to announce to her female friends  
> the stake agreed upon in their gambling match,  
> she, with knitted brow,  
> clasps his neck with both hands and covers his mouth with her cheek.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.263.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.2.263.p1)

atra bhāva-bandhanāparādha-kauṭilyayor anuvṛttau kaṇṭhālambanādinopacāreṇa visrambhaḥ |

> Here, while the bond of emotion and the crookedness over an offense persist, confidence arises through attentive actions such as clasping the neck.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.263.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.2.263.p2)

\[keṣucit lipiṣu idam udāharaṇam atra dṛśyate-

> \[In some manuscripts, this example is seen here:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [2.263.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara.2.263.p3)

kāñcyā gāḍhatarāvaruddha-vasana-prāntā kim-arthaṃ punar  
mugdhākṣī svapitīti tat-parijanaṃ svairaṃ priye pṛcchati |  
mātaḥ svaptum apīha vārayati mām ity āhita-krodhayā  
paryasya svapana-cchalena śayane datto' vakāśas tayā || (amaru. 18)\]

> "Why does this lovely-eyed girl sleep again with the skirt of her garment firmly secured by her girdle?" / When the lover gently asks her attendants thus, / she, feigning anger—"Mother, he will not even let me sleep here!"— / turned over under the pretext of sleep and made room for him on the bed. (Amaruśataka 18)\]  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.natya.rasarnavasudhakara~en-mt.2.263) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Rasasudhākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.rasasudhakara.4.112) — Sanskrit

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