The Growing-up of Rādhā

[XVI]

3. Her eyes are elongated just when she grows up: or possibly the poet means that she then first artificially extends their length with a line of collyrium.

14. 'Mahesha,' i.e. a Shiva-lingam, Cf [I], 11, and [LXVI], 10.

[XVII]

1, 2. Sometimes she flashes sidelong glances, sometimes she veils her face.

[XIX]

8. 'And vital feelings of delight

Shall rear her form to stately height.
Her virgin bosom swell.'

Wordsworth.