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pachānā : 'To digest; to assimilate; to cause to rot, to rot, to ferment; to spend, or to do away with the property of another dishonestly or wrongfully; to embezzle'. (Platts p.229)
vuṣūl : 'Arrival; —conjunction, union with, or enjoyment of (a wished-for object); acquisition; receipt, getting, levying, collection; realization (of revenue, &c.), recovery'. (Platts p.1196)
FWP:
SETS == GROTESQUERIE; HUMOR
MOTIFS == [BELOVED IS A BOY]; COMMERCE
NAMES == DELHI
TERMS == TAJNISThere's also a piquant contrast between the commercial or legal senses, and the physical senses, of pachānā and vuṣūl (see the definitions above). The vivid khā pī huʾī shai forces our imaginative attention toward the latter. The effect is actually one of cannibalism: the boys of Delhi haven't just 'embezzled' the heart, they have actually 'digested' it! So how could such an 'eaten-and-drunk thing' be recovered? One doesn't feel like pursuing the question.