Rajput Painting, Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century v2.c19.345

v2.c19.345

"Is it because of some work at home ? or is it because he cannot forsake the company of friends ? or is to-day some fast-day of his ?
Or that some debt has not been paid to a needy creditor ? or has he quarrelled with some one ? or has some illumination sprung up in his heart ?
Or is not his body at ease ? or is his love for me false ? or is he too much afraid when he sees the rain at dead of night ?
Or does he prove my love, O Keśava Rāi, that he does not come to-day ? or in what is his heart absorbed ?
Or has he clean forgotten ? or has something misled him ? or does he rove astray, and cannot find the path ?
Or is he afraid of something, O Keśava ? or has he met any one ? or has he fallen in love with some amorous woman ?
Or is he coming along the road ? or has he already arrived ?
Howsoever it be, my Giver-of-Bliss will surely come !"
When Nand's son came not, she wondered for which of these reasons he delayed.'