Urvashi Purvuras

Urvashi leaves Pururavas. She had once sought him out, propelled by her attraction to the man. The celestial nymph had become obsessed with a mortal, (so what if he was a king). She became his charioteer for days, dressed as a male, and finally revealed herself as the startlingly beautiful woman that she was. How could he resist her?

They were to live together, the creature of earth with the creature of the sky, on one condition, that she was to never see him completely nude. They lived within the night therefore, that hid some of him, always, from her eyes.

Till one day the Gandharvas, the lovers that Urvashi had deserted, plotted and stole her beloved goat kid. Urvashi woke with a start and immediately woke Purvuras and asked him to leave and bring it back for her. Like Draupadi would ask Bhim for the Himalayan flower or Sita asked Rama for the golden deer."Return my pastoral to me" Shakuntala might have said, she never had the chance to make such a demand, it is the moment of blindness in only complies. "I want that" "bring that back"it is probably only indicated with a pointing of the finger, a turn of the head, which is obdurate. The gesture must have some of the urgency of blame almost. Urvashi had called out, was it words, or the sound merely? Purvuras, startled from sleep by the sharpness of her tongue, unable to think as he heard the sound of her exhortation-accusation, just strode to the door and into the light that streamed in.. and so he lost his Urvashi

and she him