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Nagananda 2.2

Nāgānanda 2.2

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Sanskrit

2.2

vyāvṛtyaiva sitāsitekṣaṇarucā tānāaśrame śākhinaḥ
kurvatyā viṭapāvasaktavilasatkṛṣṇājinaudhāniva /
yad dṛṣṭosmi tayā munerapi purastenaiva mayyāhate
puṣpeṣo ! bhavatā mudhaiva kimiti kṣipyanta ete śarāḥ? //

Jímútaváhana.
O Cupid, why are these purposeless arrows flung against me, already so deeply wounded? Since I was looked on by her, regardless of the Muni's presence, when, as she turned, though but for a moment, she caused, by the glance of her bright black eye, the trees of the hermitage to appear flecked, as though they had masses of the skins of the dappled antelope gleaming suspended from their boughs.

Palmer Boyd 1872, Nágánanda, or The Joy of the Snake-World

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