Ashta-nayika -7, Proshhita-bhartruka, Waiting in vain for her beloved
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Separated from her spouse who’s sojourning,
the heroine awaits with deep longing.
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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.
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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.
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