Love
Fate is now friendly for ever more!
Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen (1915) · From Bangiya Padabali (trans. 1915)
Sakhī:
Fate is now friendly for ever more!
Each on the other's countenance gazing, twain are rapt--
Each in the other's arms the other enfolds--
Twain are the mouths contented each with the nectar of
other's lips.
Twain are the bodies a-tremble at Madan's behest,
The jingle of jewels is heard again in the house!
What more should I say, Vidyāpati asks:
So as their love is, so is their loving.
Codex Note
Reunion and the Flow of Nectar, CXXXIII
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Vidyapati. “Fate is now friendly for ever more!” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/132/.
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Vidyapati. “Fate is now friendly for ever more!” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/132/.
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