For the last few months, I was reading the stories of Panchatantra {1st Tantra: Mithrabheda} in sanskrit prose and verse. Reading the book in its original form revealed many gems of wisdom which are usually lost in translation.
Please do not come to any premature conclusion that stories of Panchatantra are just for children. It contains many invaluable lessons for adults much more than children.
Here are few shlokas:
जल्पन्ति सार्धमन्येन पश्यन्त्यन्येन सविभ्रमा: ।
हृद्गतं चिन्तयन्त्यन्यं प्रिय: को नाम योषितां ॥
(Women while having romance with one man, will look to another man with love, remember another lover in her mind all at the same time. Thus no woman is completely devoted to anyone.)
Please don’t think that this one shloka cannot generalize women. Here is another shloka with similar meaning:
एकेन स्मितपाटलाधररुचो जल्पन्ति अनल्पाक्षरं
वीक्षन्ते अन्यमित: स्पुटत्कुमुदिनीफ़ुल्लोलसल्लोचनाः ।
दूरोदारचरित्रचित्रविभवं ध्यायन्ति चान्यं धिया
केनेत्थं परमार्थतोऽर्थवदिव प्रेमाऽस्ति वामाभ्रुवां ॥
(Women ,with their pleasing smile and light red lips, speak eloquently with one person, [at the same time], with their lotus eyes look discreetly to another man with passion [and at the same time] they will also fondly remember another hero or flame who is romantically popular with women. Thus, whether beautiful women have any complete love to anyone? ).
Well, if this is the attitude to romance, what would be their attitude in its climax?
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