The Absent Traveller Quotes

“Though the wide world’s filled With beautiful women, Her left side compares Only with her right.”
― Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala

“The way he stared, I kept covering myself, Not that I wanted him To look elsewhere.”
― Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala

“With trembling eyes, Like a caged bird, From behind the picket-fence, She watched you go.”
― Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala

“Distance destroys love,
So does the lack of it. Gossip destroys love,
And sometimes It takes nothing
To destroy love.”
― Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala

“While the bhikshu Views her navel And she His handsome face, Crows lick clean Both ladle and alms bowl.”
― Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala