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"inscription": "recto, accross top: She comes to embrace me only after I appease her in millions of ways. [Even while embracing me] she keeps her mind wide awake and often looks around in the midst of sleep [i.e. Krishna cannot sleep soundly]. Although my beloved is away, she [Sleep] does not trust me for a moment. I can never know her. Behaving like a newly wedded shy wife, she runs away from me in the middle of the night.\" V. Dwivedi, 1968, Appendix B, p. 27.",
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