A History of Sanskrit Literature c16.s1.76

c16.s1.76

‘He counted not the wealth of beauty which he spent nor the greatness of his effort; he made her a fever of sorrow for men that dwell in blissful ease; she herself is doomed to misery since she cannot find her peer; what, pray, was the purpose of the creator when he framed that slender maiden’s body?’ Kṣemendra, who gives us the verse, reprobates the jingle in *tanvyāḥ*, which seems captious.