Love
Make your decision, Beauty
Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen (1915) · From Bangiya Padabali (trans. 1915)
Sakhī:
Make your decision, Beauty:
Kāna is waxen wood for want of you,
Sometimes he laughs for little cause:
What would he say with passionate words?
Very sorry are his sighs,
He cries, O Wel-a-way:
His helpless body trembles,
None can hold him still.
Saith Vidyāpati: Dear maiden,
Witness Rūpanārāyana.
Codex Note
The Counsel of Girl-friends (Sakhīs), XXVII
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Vidyapati. “Make your decision, Beauty.” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/26/.
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Vidyapati. “Make your decision, Beauty.” Translated by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Arun Sen. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vidyapati/26/.
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