Meghaduta 2

The Megha Dūta, or Cloud Messenger 2

Language: English

2

Separated from his wife, having passed several months on these hills pining with desire, his arm having become bare by the slipping off of the golden bracelet; on the first day of Āshāda he saw a mountain-top-embracing cloud, to all appearance, like a butting elephant preparing to thrust against a wall.

2.n1

The Yaksha having become quite wasted with sorrow, the attenuated arm no longer retained the bracelet.

2.n2

Āshāda=15 June—15 July.

Linked texts (1)

Meghadūta — Kālidāsa, Sanskrit