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Ways of wishes far wend
Until seen, just to see be the wish, which
Once achieved, to embrace her is the itch,
That done there’s still no end,
Ways of wishes far wend,
Never to part gets born passion’s new pitch.
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Translation (Limerick) | 26.08.2025 | desire, wish, women
Note: Here is a verse (in Upajati meter) from Bhartrihari’s Shringaara Shatakam (hundred verses on love and romance). Once a man is drawn to a beautiful woman, a world of desires unfolds, it says. You satisfy one and soon another one crops up. Here is the transliteration:
a-darshane darshana maatra kaamaa,
drastvaa parishvanga sukha eka lolaa |
aalingitaayaam punah aayata akshyaam,
aashaasmahe vigrahayoh abhedam || 23 ||
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