Rasarnavasudhakara 2.524

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2.524

"When the seizure of love had passed, and high esteem for affection had also slipped away, / when goodwill had ceased, as that person moved before me like any ordinary person, / looking again and again at that and at those past days, O dear friend, / I do not know what reason it is that my heart does not burst into a hundred pieces."

2.524.p1

(Amaruśataka 43)

2.524.p2

Here, although the woman's love is manifested by dejection, recollection, and the like—inferred from her heart not breaking, her gazing back on days gone by, and so on—it does not attain charmingness, because of the destruction of the love residing in the man, indicated by the slackening of his passion.

2.524.p3

A semblance of sentiment through the absolute absence of love in a man, as in:

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Rasārṇavasudhākara — Siṃhabhūpāla, Sanskrit