गन्धर्व उवाच
अथ तस्याम् अदृश्यायां नृपतिः काममोहितः ॥
पातनः शत्रुसंघानां पपात धरणीतले ॥
तस्मिन् निपतिते भूमाव् अथ सा चारुहासिनी ॥
पुनः पीनायतश्रोणी दर्शयाम् आस तं नृपम् ॥
अथाबभाषे कल्याणी वाचा मधुरया नृपम् ॥
तं कुरूणां कुलकरं कामाभिहतचेतसम् ॥
gandharva uvāca
atha tasyām adṛśyāyāṃ nṛpatiḥ kāmamohitaḥ ||
pātanaḥ śatrusaṃghānāṃ papāta dharaṇītale ||
tasmin nipatite bhūmāv atha sā cāruhāsinī ||
punaḥ pīnāyataśroṇī darśayām āsa taṃ nṛpam ||
athābabhāṣe kalyāṇī vācā madhurayā nṛpam ||
taṃ kurūṇāṃ kulakaraṃ kāmābhihatacetasam ||
The gandharva said: "And so, when she had become invisible, the king, bewildered by passion, the queller of hostile hosts, fell to the ground. When he had fallen, that sweetly smiling, full-hipped maiden appeared again before him and spoke in a sweet voice to the king, the maker of the Kuru line, whose mind was stricken by passion."
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Here the one who had hidden herself returns, moved by the suffering of the one who loves her. It is telling that the maiden, having vanished, appears again the very moment the king falls senseless: mercy will not let her leave the one who is failing. Here one sees that even earthly love reflects the law of responsiveness: sincere yearning is answered. So the verse shows that the desired one is not wholly cruel — her concealment was a trial, not a rejection; and her return brings comfort to the one overcome by passion.