Shringar [Adornment]
Flirtatiously moving eye brows and casting side glances,- Bhartrihari’s Shringar Shatkam
Are the adornment and weapons of a young woman
Vairag [Asceticism]
We do not enjoy worldly pleasures,- Bhartrihari’s Vairagyashatakam
But we ourselves are devoured
Desire is not reduced in intensity
but we ourselves are reduced to senility
Bhartrihari(? d.651 A.D.) was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet who lived around 6th or 7th century. According to one legend he was the King of Ujjain and the (elder) brother of legendary King Vikramaditya, according to this legend Bhartrihari renounced the world and became a poet. because of a woman (according to one version it was his wife and her tragic death because of him, and according to another, it was a girl who rejected his love).
Bhartrihari is famous for his sequence of three Satakas (centaines), each one having hundred Quatrains: Niti Shatakam (A Hundred Quatrains on Ethics), Shringar Shatakam (A Hundred Erotic Quatrains) and Vairagya Shatakam (A Hundred Quatrains on Renunciation).
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