=Subhashini.=] Sweetly speaking.
=Sukheshini.=] With lovely hair.
=Suhashini.=] Sweetly smiling.
=process of translation.=] To change the unspoken language of thought
into the spoken language of words is like translating the mother
tongue into a foreign language. Much of the beauty is lost.
=that speech of the dark eyes.=] Nature was speaking in every part of
her own great being, in the same silent way as those dark eyes of
Subha were speaking.
=without any common language.=] The cows had the common language of
looks with which to talk to Subha. But Pratap, who could speak,
had not learnt Subha's language of looks.
=they become public property.=] Everyone can amuse himself by talking
with them in idle moments.
=water nymph.=] Referring to the legends, common in all countries, of
water fairies or mermaids living at the bottom of a river or
beneath the sea and dwelling in wonderful palaces.
=tide from the central places of the sea.=] When the moon is full, the
tide rises to its highest point: it seems to start from some
central place far out at sea and to come rolling and surging in.
=silent troubled Mother.=] Nature, with her full tide and full moon,
seems troubled and longing to break out into speech, just as Subha
longed to do.
=they have caught your bridegroom.=] Pratap employs the word "caught"
from his favourite pursuit of fishing. The bridegroom has been
caught just like a fish.
=did her best to kill her natural beauty.=] Her hair was much more
beautiful when left in its natural way, instead of being all bound
up in a net.
=The God ... the great man.=] These words refer to the bridegroom
himself, who wields such mighty powers of choice or refusal. They
are ironical.