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Kalidasa

Bhartrihari. The Century of Life

Miscellaneous Verses

Woman’s Heart

More hard the heart of woman is to seize

Than an unreal mirrored face, more hard

Her moods to follow than on mountains barred

With rocks that skirt a dreadful precipice

A dangerous luring pathway near the skies.

And transient is her frail exacting love

Like dew that on some lotus’ petal lies.

As with rich fatal shoots an upas-grove,

Woman with faults is born, with faults she grows.

Thorns are her nature, but her face the rose.