who I think of all the time is indifferent to me!

Oil on Box Canvas 410 mm X 615 mm Unframed, Ready to Hang for Sale

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Based on a Sanskrit [an ancient Indian language] couplet

यां चिन्तयामि सततं मयि सा विरक्ता, साप्यन्यमिच्छति जनं स जनोऽन्यसक्तः।

अस्मत्कृते च परितुष्यति काचिदन्या, धिक् तां च तं च मदनं च इमां च मां च॥ - भर्तृहरि

Literal translation of the original couplet -

She, the constant subject of my thoughts, is indifferent towards me

She’s in love with another fellow, but he longs for someone else

This someone is madly in love with me – Damn them all!

She, he, and the special someone

Oh wait, Cupid caused all this – Damn him too!

And damn myself

- Bhartruhari

Legend -

Bhartrhari was a king.

Once, a sage came to him and handed him a fruit. It was a fruit that could bestow eternal youth. Bhartrhari was very fond of his wife, who was his very life. Not wanting the fruit for himself, he gave it to her. The queen gave it to her lover, an attendant in the royal palace. But he was in love with a dancer and the fruit went to her. The dancer in turn gave it to the king, whom she idolized. The fruit had come a full circle. Dejected by this, Bhartrhari gave up his kingdom and became an ascetic.

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