A History of Sanskrit Literature c15.s3.16

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c15.s3.16

‘Even to-day here echo in my heart the words—sweet whether they bore meaning or not—of my fair one, when her eyes were shut in sleep and she was heavy with our love-play.’ It seems as if there were deliberate purpose in mentioning the princess’s rank in a verse with a distinct touch of humour, alluding as it does to the Indian fashion of addressing a man who sneezed with the words ‘Live on’:

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