Rasarnavasudhakara 2.523
English (machine translation) 2.523
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2.523
"Love for a person hard to attain; shame is heavy; myself dependent on others; / dear friend, love is perverse; death alone indeed is the best refuge."
2.523.p2
[Love for a person hard to attain; shame is heavy; myself dependent on others; / dear friend, love is perverse; death alone indeed is the best refuge.]
2.523.p3
If it is objected that here there would follow the consequence of the first awakening of love being a semblance [of sentiment], we reply: Absence is indeed threefold—prior absence, absolute absence, and destructional absence. Among these, in the case of prior absence, because the arising of love is expected once the causes like seeing [the beloved] are possible, there is no semblance [of sentiment]. But in the other two, even when the causes are present, because love does not arise, it is indeed a semblance. Others, however, assert that sentiment is a semblance only when love is absent in the woman. That is not tenable; for even when love is absent in the man, the sentiment cannot be savoured. As in:
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- Rasārṇavasudhākara — Siṃhabhūpāla, Sanskrit