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Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi · Chapter 9

Hari's Beloveds

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आसाꣳ चतुर्विधो भेदः सर्वासाꣳ व्रज-सुभ्रुवाम् । स्यात् स्व-पक्षः सुहृत्-पक्षस् तटस्थः प्रतिपक्षकः ॥१॥

āsāṁ caturvidho bhedaḥ sarvāsāṁ vraja-subhruvām | syāt sva-pakṣaḥ suhṛt-pakṣas taṭasthaḥ pratipakṣakaḥ ||1||

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All the beautiful-browed women of Vraja are divided into four parties: one's own party, a friendly party, a neutral party, and an opposing party.

सुहृत्-पक्ष-तटस्थौ तु प्रासङ्गिकतयोदितौ । द्वौ स्व-पक्ष-विपक्षाख्यौ भेदाव् एव रस-प्रदौ ॥२॥

suhṛt-pakṣa-taṭasthau tu prāsaṅgikatayoditau | dvau sva-pakṣa-vipakṣākhyau bhedāv eva rasa-pradau ||2||

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The friendly and neutral parties are described only incidentally. The two divisions called one's own party and the opposing party alone directly nourish rasa.

प्रोक्तस् तत्र स्व-पक्षस्य विशेषः पूर्वम् एव हि । सुहृत्-पक्षादि-भेदानाꣳ दिग् एव किल दर्श्यते ॥३॥

proktas tatra sva-pakṣasya viśeṣaḥ pūrvam eva hi | suhṛt-pakṣādi-bhedānāṁ dig eva kila darśyate ||3||

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The distinctive character of one's own party has already been explained. Here only an indication is given of the friendly and other parties.

तत्र सुहृत्-पक्षः- सुहृत्-पक्षो भवेद् इष्ट-साधको’निष्ट-बाधकः ॥४॥

tatra suhṛt-pakṣaḥ- suhṛt-pakṣo bhaved iṣṭa-sādhako’niṣṭa-bādhakaḥ ||4||

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The friendly party: A friendly party accomplishes what is desired and obstructs what is undesirable.

तत्र इष्ट-साधकत्वम्, यथा- अद्याकर्णय मद्-गिरꣳ परिजनैर् एभिः समꣳ श्यामले राधायास् त्वयि सौहृदꣳ सखि जगच् चित्तेषु चित्रीयते । उल्लासाद् भवद् आख्यया यद् अनिशꣳ तस्याङ्गरागस् तया सान्द्रश् चन्द्रक-शेखरस्य समये चन्द्रान्वितः प्रेष्यते ॥५॥

tatra iṣṭa-sādhakatvam, yathā- adyākarṇaya mad-giraṁ parijanair ebhiḥ samaṁ śyāmale rādhāyās tvayi sauhṛdaṁ sakhi jagac citteṣu citrīyate | ullāsād bhavad ākhyayā yad aniśaṁ tasyāṅgarāgas tayā sāndraś candraka-śekharasya samaye candrānvitaḥ preṣyate ||5||

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Accomplishing what is desired: Śyāmalā, today hear my words together with these companions. Friend, Rādhā's friendship for you astonishes every heart in the world. With delight she constantly takes your name as the color adorning her body, and at the proper time sends that deep hue, accompanied by the moon, to the moon-crested lord.

अनिष्ट-बाधकत्वꣳ, यथा- गीर्भिर् मूढ-जनस्य खण्डित-मतिर् भाण्डीर-मूले मुधा किꣳ गन्तास्मि तवोदिते बलवती श्यामे प्रतीतिर् मम । निर्व्याजꣳ बट-राज-रोधसि वधू-वेश-क्रियोद्भासिना कꣳसारिः सुबलेन गोष्ठ-नगरी-वैहासिकः क्रीडति ॥६॥

aniṣṭa-bādhakatvaṁ, yathā- gīrbhir mūḍha-janasya khaṇḍita-matir bhāṇḍīra-mūle mudhā kiṁ gantāsmi tavodite balavatī śyāme pratītir mama | nirvyājaṁ baṭa-rāja-rodhasi vadhū-veśa-kriyodbhāsinā kaṁsāriḥ subalena goṣṭha-nagarī-vaihāsikaḥ krīḍati ||6||

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Obstructing what is undesirable: Why should I uselessly go to the foot of the bhāṇḍīra tree because of the words of foolish people? Śyāmā, your statement has awakened strong confidence in me. On the bank beside the great banyan tree, Kaṁsa's enemy is innocently playing with Subala, who shines in a young woman's dress, making the cowherd settlement laugh.

अथ तटस्थः- यो विपक्ष-सुहृत्-पक्षः स तटस्थ इहोच्यते ॥७॥

atha taṭasthaḥ- yo vipakṣa-suhṛt-pakṣaḥ sa taṭastha ihocyate ||7||

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Now the neutral party: A party friendly to one's rival is called neutral here.

यथा- खेदꣳ न व्यसने तनोषि वहसे नोल्लासम् अस्याः शुभे दोषाणाꣳ प्रकटीकृतौ न हि धियꣳ धत्से गुणानाम् अपि । अव्याक्षिप्त-मनो-गतिः सुवदने द्वेषेण रागेण च त्वꣳ श्यामे मुनि-वृत्तिर् अत्र सततꣳ चन्द्रावलौ दृश्यसे ॥८॥

yathā- khedaṁ na vyasane tanoṣi vahase nollāsam asyāḥ śubhe doṣāṇāṁ prakaṭīkṛtau na hi dhiyaṁ dhatse guṇānām api | avyākṣipta-mano-gatiḥ suvadane dveṣeṇa rāgeṇa ca tvaṁ śyāme muni-vṛttir atra satataṁ candrāvalau dṛśyase ||8||

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For example: Auspicious girl, you feel no sorrow at Candrāvalī's misfortune and take no delight in her happiness. You set your mind upon revealing neither her faults nor her virtues. Lovely-faced Śyāmā, your mind unmoved by either aversion or attachment, you appear here continually to follow the conduct of a sage.

अथ विपक्षः- मिथो-द्वेषी विपक्षः स्याद् इष्टहानिष्ट-कारकः ॥९॥

atha vipakṣaḥ- mitho-dveṣī vipakṣaḥ syād iṣṭahāniṣṭa-kārakaḥ ||9||

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Now the opposing party: An opposing party bears mutual hostility, destroys what is desired, and causes what is undesirable.

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तत्र इष्ट-हन्तृत्वꣳ, यथा- राधे त्वत्-पदवी-निवेशित-दृशꣳ कुञ्जे हरिꣳ जानती पद्मा तत्र निनाय हन्त कुटिला चन्द्रावलीꣳ छद्मना । इत्य् आकर्ण्य मुकुन्द सा सुबलतः स्तब्धा तथाद्य स्थिता दृष्ट्वा नील-पटीꣳ तनौ जटिलया प्रातर् यथा तर्जिता ॥१०॥

tatra iṣṭa-hantṛtvaṁ, yathā- rādhe tvat-padavī-niveśita-dṛśaṁ kuñje hariṁ jānatī padmā tatra nināya hanta kuṭilā candrāvalīṁ chadmanā | ity ākarṇya mukunda sā subalataḥ stabdhā tathādya sthitā dṛṣṭvā nīla-paṭīṁ tanau jaṭilayā prātar yathā tarjitā ||10||

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Destroying what is desired: Rādhā, although crooked Padmā knew that Hari waited in the bower with his gaze fixed upon your path, she deceitfully led Candrāvalī there. Hearing this from Subala, Mukunda became so stunned that he remains rigid today, just as when Jaṭilā saw a blue cloth upon your body in the morning and rebuked you.

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अथ अनिष्ट-कारित्वꣳ, यथा- कुतः पद्मे पुत्रि क्षिति-धर-तटाद् अम्ब जटिले वधूर् दृष्टा क्व नु रवि-निकेतस्य पुरतः । चिरꣳ नायात्य् एषा कथम् इव निरुद्धात्र हरिणा तवाध्वानꣳ पश्यत्य् अहह भवती धावतु रुषा ॥११॥

atha aniṣṭa-kāritvaṁ, yathā- kutaḥ padme putri kṣiti-dhara-taṭād amba jaṭile vadhūr dṛṣṭā kva nu ravi-niketasya purataḥ | ciraṁ nāyāty eṣā katham iva niruddhātra hariṇā tavādhvānaṁ paśyaty ahaha bhavatī dhāvatu ruṣā ||11||

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Causing what is undesirable: 'Padmā, where have you come from?' 'From the foot of the mountain, mother Jaṭilā.' 'Daughter, where did you see my daughter-in-law?' 'In front of the sun temple.' 'Why has she not returned for so long?' 'Hari must have detained her here. Alas, she is watching your path; your ladyship should run there in anger.'

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छद्मेर्ष्या-चापलासूया-मत्सरामर्ष-गर्वितम् । व्यक्तिꣳ यात्य् उक्ति-चेष्टाभिः प्रतिपक्ष-सखीष्व् इदम् ॥१२॥

chadmerṣyā-cāpalāsūyā-matsarāmarṣa-garvitam | vyaktiṁ yāty ukti-ceṣṭābhiḥ pratipakṣa-sakhīṣv idam ||12||

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Deception, jealousy, fickleness, envy, rivalry, intolerance, and pride become manifest through the words and actions exchanged among friends of opposing parties.

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तत्र छद्म, यथा- श्रुत्वा कीचकम् अद्रि-मूर्ध्नि पशवः श्यामꣳ च दृष्ट्वाम्बुदꣳ धावन्त्व् अल्प-धियः कथꣳ त्वम् अपि धिग् धीराधिकꣳ धावसि । इत्य् उच्चैर् अनृतोत्तरेण तरलाꣳ प्रत्याय्य पद्माम् असौ प्राप्ता पश्य गृहꣳ करोति ललिता राधा-प्रयाणे त्वराम् ॥१३॥

tatra chadma, yathā- śrutvā kīcakam adri-mūrdhni paśavaḥ śyāmaṁ ca dṛṣṭvāmbudaṁ dhāvantv alpa-dhiyaḥ kathaṁ tvam api dhig dhīrādhikaṁ dhāvasi | ity uccair anṛtottareṇa taralāṁ pratyāyya padmām asau prāptā paśya gṛhaṁ karoti lalitā rādhā-prayāṇe tvarām ||13||

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Deception: 'Hearing the reeds upon the mountain peak and seeing a dark rain cloud, the witless animals may run, but shame on you, a most intelligent woman, for running too!' With this loud and false reply Lalitā convinced restless Padmā. See! Lalitā has reached home and now hastens Rādhā's departure.

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अथ ईर्ष्या, यथा- उद्घटय्य कुटिलꣳ कच-पक्षꣳ देवि दर्शयसि किꣳ वन-मालाम् । नील-यष्टिवद् अमुꣳ मद्-अलिन्दे लोकयालि वन-मालिनम् एव ॥१४॥

atha īrṣyā, yathā- udghaṭayya kuṭilaṁ kaca-pakṣaṁ devi darśayasi kiṁ vana-mālām | nīla-yaṣṭivad amuṁ mad-alinde lokayāli vana-mālinam eva ||14||

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Now jealousy: Goddess, why do you loosen your curling mass of hair and display a forest garland? Friend, look instead in my courtyard upon the forest-garlanded one himself, standing like a sapphire staff.

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यथा वा- निर्बन्ध-प्रवणेन कꣳस-रिपुणा प्राग् अर्प्यमाणो’पि यः प्राज्यꣳ दोषम् अवेक्ष्य नायक-मणौ न स्वीकृतो’भून् मया । हारः सम्प्रति सो’यम् एव विषमो लुब्धे क्व लब्धस् त्वया द्राग् इष्टो’प्य् उरग-क्षताङ्गुलि-निभो दुष्टः सखि त्यज्यताम् ॥१५॥

yathā vā- nirbandha-pravaṇena kaṁsa-ripuṇā prāg arpyamāṇo’pi yaḥ prājyaṁ doṣam avekṣya nāyaka-maṇau na svīkṛto’bhūn mayā | hāraḥ samprati so’yam eva viṣamo lubdhe kva labdhas tvayā drāg iṣṭo’py uraga-kṣatāṅguli-nibho duṣṭaḥ sakhi tyajyatām ||15||

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Or, for example: Though Kaṁsa's enemy persistently offered me this very necklace before, I saw a grave fault in that jewel among heroes and would not accept it. Alas, greedy girl, where have you now obtained this dangerous necklace? Though dearly desired, it is wicked, resembling a finger wounded by a snake. Friend, cast it away at once.

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अथ चापलम्- नात्मानꣳ व्यथय वृथा निकुञ्ज-मध्ये खद्योति द्युतिम् इह कुर्वती स-रागम् । कृष्णाभ्रे गिरिवर-सङ्गते’नुरूपा सोमाभा विलसितुम् अत्र विद्युद् एव ॥१६॥

atha cāpalam- nātmānaṁ vyathaya vṛthā nikuñja-madhye khadyoti dyutim iha kurvatī sa-rāgam | kṛṣṇābhre girivara-saṅgate’nurūpā somābhā vilasitum atra vidyud eva ||16||

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Now fickleness: Firefly, do not uselessly distress yourself in the bower by producing a passionate glow. When the Kṛṣṇa cloud meets the great mountain, moon-radiant lightning alone is suited to shine here.

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अथ आसूया- यद् भाण्डीरे तव सहचरी ताण्डवꣳ सा व्यतानीत् पद्मे शैव्या समजनि न तत् कस्य विस्मापनाय । सा चेत् तन्वी प्रकृति-लडहा शिक्षिता चाभविष्य- न्मन्ये सर्वꣳ जगद् अपि ततः प्रेक्षयामोहयिष्यत् ॥१७॥

atha āsūyā- yad bhāṇḍīre tava sahacarī tāṇḍavaṁ sā vyatānīt padme śaivyā samajani na tat kasya vismāpanāya | sā cet tanvī prakṛti-laḍahā śikṣitā cābhaviṣya- nmanye sarvaṁ jagad api tataḥ prekṣayāmohayiṣyat ||17||

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Now envy: Padmā, when your companion Śaivyā performed that dance beneath the bhāṇḍīra tree, whom did it not astonish? If the slender girl had been naturally graceful and properly trained, I think her dance would have bewildered the entire world.

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अथ मत्सरः- अलꣳ चक्रे राधा-हृदयम् उरु-हारेण हरिणा स्रजा धूर्तेनेयꣳ तव तु कवर-श्रीर् अवरया । मनो द्वन्द्वातीतꣳ मुनिवद् अविकल्पꣳ च दधती तथापि त्वꣳ मुग्धे न विपिन-विनोदाद् विरमसि ॥१८॥

atha matsaraḥ- alaṁ cakre rādhā-hṛdayam uru-hāreṇa hariṇā srajā dhūrteneyaṁ tava tu kavara-śrīr avarayā | mano dvandvātītaṁ munivad avikalpaṁ ca dadhatī tathāpi tvaṁ mugdhe na vipina-vinodād viramasi ||18||

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Now rivalry: Hari ornamented Rādhā's heart with an immense necklace, but this rogue adorned the beauty of your hair with an inferior garland. Innocent girl, though you preserve a sage-like mind beyond duality and free from alternatives, still you do not desist from amusement in the forest.

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अथ अमर्षः- स्फुटद्भिर् इव कोरकैर् अलघुभिश् च गुञ्जा-फलैर् मयाद्य विरचय्य यन् मुरहराय विश्राणितम् । त्वयात्र पखि राधिका-श्रवसि वीक्ष्य तत्-कुण्डलꣳ मनः स्वम् उदघाटि यत् तद् अतिलाघवायैव नः ॥१९॥

atha amarṣaḥ- sphuṭadbhir iva korakair alaghubhiś ca guñjā-phalair mayādya viracayya yan muraharāya viśrāṇitam | tvayātra pakhi rādhikā-śravasi vīkṣya tat-kuṇḍalaṁ manaḥ svam udaghāṭi yat tad atilāghavāyaiva naḥ ||19||

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Now intolerance: Today I fashioned an ornament from bursting flower buds and large guñjā berries and presented it to Mura's destroyer. Birdlike girl, when I saw that ornament here upon Rādhikā's ear, I opened my heart to you only because of our extreme insignificance.

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अथ गर्वितम्- अहङ्कारो’भिमानश् च दर्प उद्धसितꣳ तथा । मद औद्धत्यम् इत्य् एष गर्वः षोढा निगद्यते ॥२०॥

atha garvitam- ahaṅkāro’bhimānaś ca darpa uddhasitaṁ tathā | mada auddhatyam ity eṣa garvaḥ ṣoḍhā nigadyate ||20||

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Now pride: Pride is said to be sixfold: self-assertion, loving self-regard, boastfulness, open ridicule, conceit, and audacity.

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अत्र अहङ्कारः- अहङ्कारः पराक्षेपः स्वपक्ष-गुण-वर्णनात् ॥२१॥

atra ahaṅkāraḥ- ahaṅkāraḥ parākṣepaḥ svapakṣa-guṇa-varṇanāt ||21||

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Self-assertion: Self-assertion consists of disparaging the other party by describing the qualities of one's own.

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यथा- आकाशे रुचि-लवम् इन्द्र-नील-शोभे सोमाभा जनयति तावद्-अस्फुट-श्रीः । नेत्राणाꣳ तिमिर-हरा वरेण्य-दीप्तिः सा यावन् न हि वृषभानुजाभ्युदेति ॥२२॥

yathā- ākāśe ruci-lavam indra-nīla-śobhe somābhā janayati tāvad-asphuṭa-śrīḥ | netrāṇāṁ timira-harā vareṇya-dīptiḥ sā yāvan na hi vṛṣabhānujābhyudeti ||22||

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For example: In the sapphire-brilliant sky, dim moonlight produces only a faint and indistinct beauty until Vṛṣabhānu's daughter rises, bearing the excellent radiance that dispels the darkness of every eye.

9.23

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अभिमानः- अभिमानो निज-प्रेमोत्कर्षाख्यानꣳ तु भङ्गितः ॥२३॥

abhimānaḥ- abhimāno nija-premotkarṣākhyānaṁ tu bhaṅgitaḥ ||23||

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Loving self-regard: Loving self-regard is an indirect declaration of the excellence of one's own love.

9.24

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तत्र कृष्णे स्वपक्ष-प्रेमाख्यानꣳ, यथा- त्वꣳ धीर-धीः फणि-ह्रदे हरि-झम्प-गाथाꣳ निष्कम्पम् एव यद् इयꣳ गदितुꣳ प्रवृत्ता । तत्रानुषङ्गिकतयाप्य् उदिते कदम्बे वक्षः पिनष्टि रुदती तरला सखी मे ॥२४॥

tatra kṛṣṇe svapakṣa-premākhyānaṁ, yathā- tvaṁ dhīra-dhīḥ phaṇi-hrade hari-jhampa-gāthāṁ niṣkampam eva yad iyaṁ gadituṁ pravṛttā | tatrānuṣaṅgikatayāpy udite kadambe vakṣaḥ pinaṣṭi rudatī taralā sakhī me ||24||

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Describing the love of one's own party to Kṛṣṇa: With steady intelligence you calmly begin to recount the tale of Hari's leap into the serpent's lake. Yet when even the kadamba tree is mentioned incidentally, my restless friend bursts into tears and beats her chest.

9.25

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स्वपक्षे कृष्ण-प्रेमाख्यानꣳ, यथा- धन्यासि कृष्ण-कर-कल्पित-पत्र-वल्ली रम्यालिका विहरसे मद-मन्थराङ्गी । हा वञ्चितास्मि कलिते ललिता-मुखेन्दौ जाड्यꣳ स यात्य् अखिल-शिल्प-धुरन्धरो’पि ॥२५॥

svapakṣe kṛṣṇa-premākhyānaṁ, yathā- dhanyāsi kṛṣṇa-kara-kalpita-patra-vallī ramyālikā viharase mada-mantharāṅgī | hā vañcitāsmi kalite lalitā-mukhendau jāḍyaṁ sa yāty akhila-śilpa-dhurandharo’pi ||25||

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Describing Kṛṣṇa's love within one's own party: You are fortunate, your lovely forehead decorated with a vine-design drawn by Kṛṣṇa's hand, as you move with limbs slowed by intoxication. Alas, I have been cheated! Even that master of every art becomes inert when the moon of Lalitā's face appears.

9.26

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दर्पः- गर्वम् आचक्षते दर्पꣳ विहारोत्कर्ष-सूचकम् ॥२६॥

darpaḥ- garvam ācakṣate darpaṁ vihārotkarṣa-sūcakam ||26||

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Boastfulness: The learned call that pride boastfulness which indicates the excellence of one's amorous play.

9.27

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यथा- विद्मः पुण्यवती-शिखामणिम् इह त्वाम् एव हर्म्ये यया नीयन्ते शरदिन्दु-धाम-धवलाः स्वापोत्सवेन क्षपाः । को’यꣳ नः फलति स्म कर्म-विटपी वृन्दाटवी-कन्दरे श्यामः को’पि करी करोति हृदयोन्मादेन निद्रा-क्षयम् ॥२७॥

yathā- vidmaḥ puṇyavatī-śikhāmaṇim iha tvām eva harmye yayā nīyante śaradindu-dhāma-dhavalāḥ svāpotsavena kṣapāḥ | ko’yaṁ naḥ phalati sma karma-viṭapī vṛndāṭavī-kandare śyāmaḥ ko’pi karī karoti hṛdayonmādena nidrā-kṣayam ||27||

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For example: We know that you alone are the crest-jewel of fortunate women here, for in your palace you pass nights white with the autumn moon's radiance in a festival of sleep. What fruit has the tree of our past deeds produced in a cave of Vṛndāvana forest? Some dark elephant destroys our sleep by maddening our hearts.

9.28

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उद्धसितम्- उपहासो विपक्षस्य साक्षाद् उद्धसितꣳ भवेत् ॥२८॥

uddhasitam- upahāso vipakṣasya sākṣād uddhasitaṁ bhavet ||28||

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Open ridicule: Direct mockery of the opposing party is open ridicule.

9.29

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यथा- नोच्चैर् निःश्वसिहि प्रसीद परमे मुञ्च ग्रहꣳ दुर्लभे म्लानिꣳ ते सखि वीक्ष्य हन्त कृपया मच्-चित्तम् उत्ताम्यति । बद्धः पश्य विभङ्गुरे’त्र ललिता-वाग्-वागुराडम्बरे जानीते न किल स्वम् एव सरले श्यामः कुरङ्गी-पतिः ॥२९॥

yathā- noccair niḥśvasihi prasīda parame muñca grahaṁ durlabhe mlāniṁ te sakhi vīkṣya hanta kṛpayā mac-cittam uttāmyati | baddhaḥ paśya vibhaṅgure’tra lalitā-vāg-vāgurāḍambare jānīte na kila svam eva sarale śyāmaḥ kuraṅgī-patiḥ ||29||

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For example: Do not sigh so loudly. Be gracious, supremely unattainable girl, and abandon your obstinacy. Alas, friend, seeing you wither makes my compassionate heart ache. Fragile and innocent girl, look! Caught in the grand snare of Lalitā's words, the dark lord of the does no longer even knows himself.

9.30

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मदः- सेवाद्य्-उत्कर्षकृद् गर्वो मद इत्य् अभिधीयते ॥३०॥

madaḥ- sevādy-utkarṣakṛd garvo mada ity abhidhīyate ||30||

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Conceit: Pride produced by excellence in service and similar accomplishments is called conceit.

9.31

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यथा- जगति ललिते धन्या यूयꣳ सुगन्धिभिर् अद्भुतै रविर् अविरतिꣳ याभिः पुष्पैर् अमीभिर् उपास्यते । बत विधि-वशाज् जातꣳ वन्य-स्रजि व्यसनꣳ तथा दलम् अपि न नः कात्यायन्यै यथा परिशिष्यते ॥३१॥

yathā- jagati lalite dhanyā yūyaṁ sugandhibhir adbhutai ravir aviratiṁ yābhiḥ puṣpair amībhir upāsyate | bata vidhi-vaśāj jātaṁ vanya-sraji vyasanaṁ tathā dalam api na naḥ kātyāyanyai yathā pariśiṣyate ||31||

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For example: Lalitā, you are fortunate in this world, for with these wonderfully fragrant flowers you worship the sun without interruption. Alas, by the power of fate we have become so addicted to making forest garlands that not even a leaf remains for our worship of Kātyāyanī.

9.32

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औद्धत्यम्- स्पष्टꣳ स्वोत्कृष्टताख्यानम् औद्धत्यम् इति कीर्त्यते ॥३२॥

auddhatyam- spaṣṭaṁ svotkṛṣṭatākhyānam auddhatyam iti kīrtyate ||32||

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Audacity: An explicit declaration of one's own superiority is celebrated as audacity.

9.33

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यथा- कस् तावद् व्रज-मण्डले स वलते गान्धर्विका स्पर्धताꣳ सार्धꣳ हन्त जनेन येन जगती-जङ्घाल-कीर्ति-ध्वजा । कुल्यायाः कृपणावलीषु कृपया कामꣳ द्रवच्-चेतसो यस्याः प्रेरणया क्षणꣳ भवति वः पद्मे निषेव्यो हरिः ॥३३॥

yathā- kas tāvad vraja-maṇḍale sa valate gāndharvikā spardhatāṁ sārdhaṁ hanta janena yena jagatī-jaṅghāla-kīrti-dhvajā | kulyāyāḥ kṛpaṇāvalīṣu kṛpayā kāmaṁ dravac-cetaso yasyāḥ preraṇayā kṣaṇaṁ bhavati vaḥ padme niṣevyo hariḥ ||33||

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For example: Who in the circle of Vraja can compete with Gāndharvikā, whose banner of fame moves more swiftly than the world itself? Padmā, her heart freely melts with compassion for the pitiable line of an inferior family, and only at her direction does Hari become available for your service for a moment.

9.34

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किꣳ च- श्लिष्टोक्तिश् च क्वचित् तासाꣳ निन्दा-गर्भोपजायते ॥३४॥

kiṁ ca- śliṣṭoktiś ca kvacit tāsāṁ nindā-garbhopajāyate ||34||

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Furthermore, their statements sometimes carry double meanings pregnant with condemnation.

9.35

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यथा- गोविन्दाहित-मण्डना विधुरतावाप्ति-प्रसङ्गोज्झिता दक्षानल्प-कला वयो-घन-रुचिꣳ तन्वा मुहुस् तन्वती । सर्वानुत्तम-साधु-तापद-कृतिर् भव्ये भवत्याः सखी नासौ भाग्य-भरात् कदापि विरतिꣳ प्राप्नोति सौदामिनी ॥३५॥

yathā- govindāhita-maṇḍanā vidhuratāvāpti-prasaṅgojjhitā dakṣānalpa-kalā vayo-ghana-ruciṁ tanvā muhus tanvatī | sarvānuttama-sādhu-tāpada-kṛtir bhavye bhavatyāḥ sakhī nāsau bhāgya-bharāt kadāpi viratiṁ prāpnoti saudāminī ||35||

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For example: Auspicious girl, your friend wears ornaments placed upon her by Govinda, remains untouched by any occasion of loneliness, is expert in numerous arts, and repeatedly extends the dense radiance of youth through her body. Because of her great fortune, this lightning flash, whose conduct brings distress to the most excellent saintly women, never comes to rest.

9.36

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यथा वा- समस्त-जन-लोचनोत्सव-विनोद-निष्पादिनी विलक्षण-गति-क्रिया-विचलिताङ्ग-हार-स्थितिः । निरस्य हरितालजꣳ रुचि-तरङ्गम् आत्मोर्जितैः सखी नटति ते रस-स्खलितम् अत्र खेलावती ॥३६॥

yathā vā- samasta-jana-locanotsava-vinoda-niṣpādinī vilakṣaṇa-gati-kriyā-vicalitāṅga-hāra-sthitiḥ | nirasya haritālajaṁ ruci-taraṅgam ātmorjitaiḥ sakhī naṭati te rasa-skhalitam atra khelāvatī ||36||

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Or, for example: Your friend Khelāvatī dances here, producing a delightful festival for every spectator's eyes. Her extraordinary steps make the position of her limbs and necklace shake, while the powerful waves of her own radiance cast aside the yellow glow of haritāla pigment, even though her rasa repeatedly falters.

9.37

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यास् तु यूथाभिनाथाः स्युः साक्षान् नेर्ष्यन्ति ताः स्फुटम् । विपक्षाय स्व-गाम्भीर्य-मर्यादादि-गुणोदयात् ॥३७॥

yās tu yūthābhināthāḥ syuḥ sākṣān nerṣyanti tāḥ sphuṭam | vipakṣāya sva-gāmbhīrya-maryādādi-guṇodayāt ||37||

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Women who are themselves leaders of groups do not openly display jealousy toward an opposing party, because virtues such as gravity, dignity, and restraint arise within them.

9.38

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यथा- विपक्ष-रमणी-सखीꣳ पिशुनितोरुगर्वच्छटाꣳ विलोक्य किल मङ्गला विरल-हास-फेनोज्ज्वलम् । ततान तम् अनाकुलꣳ विनय-निर्झरꣳ येन सा निजे तरसि मज्जिता सपदि लज्जिता विव्यथे ॥३८॥

yathā- vipakṣa-ramaṇī-sakhīṁ piśunitorugarvacchaṭāṁ vilokya kila maṅgalā virala-hāsa-phenojjvalam | tatāna tam anākulaṁ vinaya-nirjharaṁ yena sā nije tarasi majjitā sapadi lajjitā vivyathe ||38||

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For example: Seeing the companion of a rival group leader display a vast splendor of slanderous pride, Maṅgalā shone with the foam of a faint smile and released an untroubled waterfall of humility. Submerged at once in that stream's force, the other woman suffered in shame.

9.39

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विपक्ष-यूथ-नाथायाः पुरतः प्रकटꣳ न हि । जल्पन्ति लघवः सेर्ष्यꣳ प्रायशः प्रखरा अपि ॥३९॥

vipakṣa-yūtha-nāthāyāḥ purataḥ prakaṭaṁ na hi | jalpanti laghavaḥ serṣyaṁ prāyaśaḥ prakharā api ||39||

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Lesser friends, even those who are sharp, generally do not speak openly with jealousy before the leader of an opposing group.

9.40

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यथा- दिष्ट्या दुस्तरतो मद्-उक्ति-निगडान् मुक्तासि मुग्धे क्षणाद् अभ्यर्णे वृषभानुजा विजयते यद् भानुजायास् तटे । नातथ्यꣳ प्रथयामि देव्य् अपि गिराꣳ वाग्-द्यूत-केलीषु मे निर्धूत-प्रतिभोद्गमा भगवती लज्जार्णवे मज्जति ॥४०॥

yathā- diṣṭyā dustarato mad-ukti-nigaḍān muktāsi mugdhe kṣaṇād abhyarṇe vṛṣabhānujā vijayate yad bhānujāyās taṭe | nātathyaṁ prathayāmi devy api girāṁ vāg-dyūta-kelīṣu me nirdhūta-pratibhodgamā bhagavatī lajjārṇave majjati ||40||

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For example: By good fortune, innocent girl, you have escaped at once from the hard-to-cross chains of my speech, for Vṛṣabhānu's daughter now triumphs nearby upon Yamunā's bank. I speak no falsehood: in games of verbal dice with me, even the goddess of speech finds her rising inspiration driven away and sinks into an ocean of shame.

9.41

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हरि-प्रिय-जने भावा द्वेषाद्या नोचिता इति । ये व्याहरन्ति ते ज्ञेया अपूर्व-रसिकाः क्षितौ ॥४१॥

hari-priya-jane bhāvā dveṣādyā nocitā iti | ye vyāharanti te jñeyā apūrva-rasikāḥ kṣitau ||41||

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Those who declare that feelings such as hostility are improper toward persons dear to Hari should be recognized upon this earth as connoisseurs of an entirely unprecedented rasa.

9.42

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यथा वा- सꣳमोहनस्य कन्दर्प-वृन्देभ्यो’प्य् अघ-विद्विषः । मूर्तो नर्म-प्रिय-सखः शृङ्गारो वर्तते व्रजे ॥४२॥

yathā vā- saṁmohanasya kandarpa-vṛndebhyo’py agha-vidviṣaḥ | mūrto narma-priya-sakhaḥ śṛṅgāro vartate vraje ||42||

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Or, the playful friend dear to Agha's enemy is embodied romantic rasa in Vraja, more bewildering than hosts of Cupids.

9.43

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क्षिपेन् मिथो विजातीय-भावयोर् एष पक्षयोः । ईर्ष्यादीन् स्व-परिवारान् योगे स्व-प्रेष्ठ-तुष्टये । अत एव हि विश्लेषे स्नेहस् तासाꣳ प्रकाशते ॥४३॥

kṣipen mitho vijātīya-bhāvayor eṣa pakṣayoḥ | īrṣyādīn sva-parivārān yoge sva-preṣṭha-tuṣṭaye | ata eva hi viśleṣe snehas tāsāṁ prakāśate ||43||

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When these two parties, whose emotions differ in kind, meet together, this romantic rasa casts forth jealousy and the members of its retinue so as to delight their respective dearest beloveds. For that very reason, when the beloved is absent, the women's affection for one another becomes manifest.

9.44

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यथा ललित-माधवे (३.३९)- सान्द्रैः सुन्दरि वृन्दशो हरि-परिष्वङ्गैर् इदꣳ मङ्गलꣳ दृष्टꣳ ते हत-राधयाङ्गम् अनया दिष्ट्याद्य चन्द्रावलि । द्राग् एनाꣳ निहितेन कण्ठम् अभितः शीर्णेन कꣳस-द्विषः कर्णोत्तꣳस-सुगन्धिना निज-भुज-द्वन्द्वेन सन्धुक्षय ॥४४॥

yathā lalita-mādhave (3.39)- sāndraiḥ sundari vṛndaśo hari-pariṣvaṅgair idaṁ maṅgalaṁ dṛṣṭaṁ te hata-rādhayāṅgam anayā diṣṭyādya candrāvali | drāg enāṁ nihitena kaṇṭham abhitaḥ śīrṇena kaṁsa-dviṣaḥ karṇottaṁsa-sugandhinā nija-bhuja-dvandvena sandhukṣaya ||44||

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As in Lalita-mādhava 3.39: Beautiful Candrāvalī, by good fortune this Rādhā, ruined by separation, has today seen upon your limbs the auspicious signs of Hari's many deep embraces. Quickly revive her by placing around her neck your two arms, fragrant from the broken flower that had rested beside Kaṁsa's enemy's ear.

9.45

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यूथेशायाः स्व-पक्षादि-भेद-हेतुर् अथोच्यते । भावस्य सर्वथैवात्र साजात्ये स्यात् सपक्षता ॥४५॥

yūtheśāyāḥ sva-pakṣādi-bheda-hetur athocyate | bhāvasya sarvathaivātra sājātye syāt sapakṣatā ||45||

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The causes by which a group leader's associates are divided into her own and the other parties are now explained. When their emotional dispositions are entirely of the same kind, they belong to the same party.

9.46

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मनाग् एतस्य वैजात्ये सुहृत्-पक्षत्वम् ईरितम् । साजात्यस्य तथाल्पत्वे सति ज्ञेया तटस्थता । सर्वथा खलु वैजात्ये निश्चिता प्रतिपक्षता ॥४६॥

manāg etasya vaijātye suhṛt-pakṣatvam īritam | sājātyasya tathālpatve sati jñeyā taṭasthatā | sarvathā khalu vaijātye niścitā pratipakṣatā ||46||

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When there is slight difference in emotional disposition, they are said to form a friendly party. When similarity is itself slight, neutrality should be understood. When the dispositions differ completely, opposition is certain.

9.47

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मिथो-भावस्य वैजात्ये न भावो रोचते मिथः । अरोचकतयैवायम् अक्षान्तिꣳ जनयेत् पराम् ॥४७॥

mitho-bhāvasya vaijātye na bhāvo rocate mithaḥ | arocakatayaivāyam akṣāntiṁ janayet parām ||47||

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When two emotional dispositions differ in kind, each is unappealing to the other. That very distaste produces the greatest intolerance.

9.48

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यथा- या मध्यस्थ-पदेन सङ्कुलतरा शुद्धा प्रकृत्या जडा वैदग्धी-नलिनी-निमीलन-पटुर् दोषान्तरोल्लासिनी । आशायाः स्फुरणꣳ हरेर् जनयितुꣳ युक्तात्र चन्द्रावली सापि स्याद् इति लोचयन् सखि जनः कः सोढुम् ईष्टे क्षितौ ॥४८॥

yathā- yā madhyastha-padena saṅkulatarā śuddhā prakṛtyā jaḍā vaidagdhī-nalinī-nimīlana-paṭur doṣāntarollāsinī | āśāyāḥ sphuraṇaṁ harer janayituṁ yuktātra candrāvalī sāpi syād iti locayan sakhi janaḥ kaḥ soḍhum īṣṭe kṣitau ||48||

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For example: By nature she is dull, though greatly confused under the designation 'neutral.' She is expert in closing the lotus of cleverness and radiant with every other fault. Friend, who on earth could tolerate even the thought that such a Candrāvalī might be fit to awaken the blossoming of hope in Hari?

9.49

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षोडश्यास् त्वम् उडोर् विमुञ्च सहसा नामापि वामाशये तस्या दुर्विनयैर् मुनेर् अपि मनः शान्तात्मनः कुप्यति । धिग् गोष्ठेन्द्र-सुते समस्त-गुणिनाꣳ मौलौ व्रजाभ्यर्चिते पादान्ते पतिते’पि नैव कुरुते भ्रू-क्षेपम् अप्य् अत्र या ॥४९॥

ṣoḍaśyās tvam uḍor vimuñca sahasā nāmāpi vāmāśaye tasyā durvinayair muner api manaḥ śāntātmanaḥ kupyati | dhig goṣṭhendra-sute samasta-guṇināṁ maulau vrajābhyarcite pādānte patite’pi naiva kurute bhrū-kṣepam apy atra yā ||49||

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Contrary-minded girl, quickly give up even the name of the sixteenth digit among the stars. Her misconduct would anger the mind even of a self-controlled and peaceful sage. Shame upon a woman who does not make even the slightest movement of her eyebrow when the son of the cowherd king, worshiped throughout Vraja and the crown of all virtuous men, has fallen at her feet.

9.50

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यत्र स्यान् निज-भावस्य प्रायस् तुल्य-प्रमाणता । पक्षः स एव मैत्राय विद्वेषाय च युज्यते ॥५०॥

yatra syān nija-bhāvasya prāyas tulya-pramāṇatā | pakṣaḥ sa eva maitrāya vidveṣāya ca yujyate ||50||

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A party in which the measure of the members' own emotional dispositions is generally equal may fittingly become either a basis for friendship or for hostility.

9.51

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नाꣳशो’प्य् अन्यत्र राधायाः प्रेमादि-गुण-सम्पदाम् । रसेनैव विपक्षादौ मिथः साम्यम् इवार्प्यते ॥५१॥

nāṁśo’py anyatra rādhāyāḥ premādi-guṇa-sampadām | rasenaiva vipakṣādau mithaḥ sāmyam ivārpyate ||51||

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No one elsewhere possesses even a fraction of Rādhā's wealth of love and other virtues. Only rasa itself imposes an appearance of mutual equality between her and an opposing party.

9.52

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भावस्यात्यन्तिकाधिक्ये साजात्यꣳ सर्वथा द्वयोः । तथा तुल्य-प्रमाणत्वम् एवꣳ प्रायः सुदुर्घटम् ॥५२॥

bhāvasyātyantikādhikye sājātyaṁ sarvathā dvayoḥ | tathā tulya-pramāṇatvam evaṁ prāyaḥ sudurghaṭam ||52||

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When an emotion has reached the utmost greatness, for two persons to possess both complete similarity of kind and exactly equal measure is generally exceedingly difficult.

9.53

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स्याच् चेद् घुणाक्ष्र-न्यायात् सुहृत्तैवेह सम्मता । रस-स्वभावाद् अत्रापि वैपक्ष्यम् इति केचन ॥५३॥

syāc ced ghuṇākṣra-nyāyāt suhṛttaiveha sammatā | rasa-svabhāvād atrāpi vaipakṣyam iti kecana ||53||

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If such equality should occur accidentally, like letters formed by a wood-boring insect, only friendship is accepted here. Some authorities nevertheless maintain that opposition can arise even then because of the intrinsic nature of rasa.