Verse 22

²²Bhismaka's fair daughter, longing for Hari to come and seeing no word come back from the brahmin, thought then: ²³My wedding is three watches off and I so poorly favoured. The lotus-eyed one does not come, and I do not know the reason for it. Nor has the brahmin who carried my message returned even now. ²⁴Perhaps that faultless one, seeing something in me to turn from, will not come for my hand after all, though he had set himself to it. ²⁵The Ordainer has no kindness for me, luckless as I am, nor the great Lord; or the goddess Gauri, Rudra's wife, the mountain's daughter, the true one, has turned her face away. ²⁶Thinking so, the girl, her mind carried off by Govinda, knowing how near the hour was, closed her eyes, and they were brimming with tears.

²⁷King, while the bride waited like this for Govinda to come, her left thigh and arm and eye began to throb, and their word was a good one.