Ashta-nayika -7, Proshhita-bhartruka, Waiting in vain for her beloved

_______________ Separated from her spouse who’s sojourning, the heroine awaits with deep longing. ___________________ The warmth of a day nigh sunny Nor silver of moon passing by Gives me hope nor solace any more, Freeze of darkness spreads to my deep core, Separated, I feel utterly incomplete, O cut your long sojourn short, beat a retreat And come soon to end my loneliness, O come to end my day-long stress. Let morrow’s sun dawn with the news That would end my life’s blues, Let me await no more, come as warm breeze, O come to rhyme my life’s verses. _________________ Natya Shastra |07.02.2025| Rhyme, Note: This is seventh of Ashta-Nayikas, eight heroine types, as classified in a Sanskrit treatise on performing arts in Bharata’s Natya-Shastra. The state (avastha) of the eight romantic heroines widely themed in Indian paintings, literature, sculpture, classical dance forms and music. Proa-bhatruka is the seventh of the eight such heroines depicted here in poetic form.