History of Bengali Language and Literature c7.s6.87

c7.s6.87

There Behulā and Lakṣmindara were left to themselves. The coy maiden beheld her husband: the garland of *rangan* flowers, which he wore, hung loosely round his neck touching his right arm and breast,—his silken attire of deep scarlet half covered his handsome person, and Behulā looked upon her husband with that feeling of adoration which a Brāhmin feels when he approaches his household-god. Lakṣmindara's eyes also drank deep of the beauty of the maiden, and he asked her to come closer to him so that he might embrace her. The bashful maiden would not listen to any such thing—she hid her face with her tender hands and turned away. Fatigued by the labours and fasting