Skandapurana 4.67.92.5

4.67.92.5

kṣaṇāttāsāṃ vyatikrāṃtaḥ prāptāśca svaṃsvamālayam .. 59 ..
atha prātaḥ samutthāya punarekatra saṃgatāḥ ..
sā ca maunavatī tābhiḥ paribhukteva lakṣitā .. .. 4.2.67.60 ..
tūṣṇīṃ prāpyātha kāśīṃ sā snātvā maṃdākinījale ..
sakhībhiḥ sahitāpaśyalliṃgaṃ ratneśvaraṃ mama .. 61 ..
nirvartya niyamaṃ sātha lajjāmukulitekṣaṇā ..
nirbaṃdhena vayasyābhiḥ paripṛṣṭā jagāda ha .. 62 ..
.. ratnāvalyuvāca .. ..
atha ratneśa yātrāyāḥ prayātāsu svamaṃdiram ..
bhavatīṣu smaraṃtyeva tadratneśavaco'mṛtam.. 63 ..
saviśeṣāṃgasaṃskārā'viśaṃ saṃveśamaṃdiram ..
nidrādaridranayanā tadvilokanalālasā ..64..
balātsvapnadaśāṃ prāptā bhāvinorthasya gauravāt ..
ātmavismaraṇe hetū tato me dvau babhūvatuḥ .. 65 ..
taṃdrī tadaṃgasaṃsparśau mama bodhāpahārakau ..
taṃdryā paravaśā cāsaṃ tatastatsparśanena ca .. 66 ..
na jāne tvatha kiṃ vṛttaṃ kāhaṃ kvāhaṃ sa cātha kaḥ ..
taṃ nirjigamiṣuṃ sakhyo yāvaddhartuṃ prasāritaḥ ..67..
doḥ kaṃkaṇena ripuṇā kvaṇitaṃ tāvadutkaṭam ..
mahatā siṃjitenāhaṃ tenālpaparibodhitā .. 68 ..
sukhasaṃtānapīyūṣa hrade parinimajya vai ..
kṣaṇena tadviyogāgnikīlāsu patitā balāt ..69..
kiṃkulīyaḥ sa no vedmi kiṃdeśīyaḥ kimākhyakaḥ ..
dunoti nitarāṃ sakhyastadviśleṣānalo mahān .. 4.2.67.70 ..
analpotkalitaṃ cetaḥ punastatsaṃgamāśayā ..
prāṇānāṃ me yiyāsūnāmekameva mahauṣadham .. 71 ..
vayasyā niśibhuktasya tasyaiva punarīkṣaṇam ..
bhavatīnāmadhīnaṃ ca tatpunardarśanaṃ mama ..72..
kā'līkamālayo vakti snigdhamugdhesakhījane ..
taddarśanena sthāsyaṃti prāṇā yāsyaṃti cānyathā .. 73 ..

was crossed by them in an instant, and each reached her own abode.
Then, having risen in the morning, they met together once again; / and she, keeping silence, appeared to them as though she had been enjoyed.
Reaching Kāśī in silence, and having bathed in the water of the Mandākinī, / she, accompanied by her friends, beheld my liṅga, Ratneśvara.
Having completed her observance, with eyes half-closed in modesty, / she spoke when insistently questioned by her companions:
Ratnāvalī said:
'Then, when you had departed to your own home from the Ratneśa pilgrimage, / remembering that very nectar of words from Ratneśa,
I entered the bedchamber, adorned with special decorations. / With eyes bereft of sleep, longing to behold him,
I was brought forcibly to a dream-state by the majesty of the impending matter. / Thereupon, two causes arose for my forgetting of myself:
drowsiness and the touch of his body—both rob me of consciousness. / I became helpless through drowsiness, and then through his touch.
I do not know what happened, who I am, where I am, and who he was. / O friends, as I stretched out my arm to hold him who wished to depart,
my enemy, the bracelet, jingled loudly; / by that great tinkling, I was awakened slightly.
Having plunged indeed into a pool of the nectar of continuous bliss, / in an instant I was forcibly cast into the flames of the fire of separation from him.
I do not know to what family he belongs, to what country, or what his name is. / O friends, the great fire of separation from him torments me intensely.
My mind is greatly agitated with the hope of union with him once again; / for my life-breaths that are eager to depart, there is only one sovereign remedy:
the sight once again of that very companion enjoyed in the night. / And seeing him again is dependent upon you.
Who speaks a false falsehood in the circle of affectionate and innocent friends? / By the sight of him my life-breaths will remain; otherwise, they will depart.