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___ The following verse is from राजशेखर's बालरामायण in which king 4 at the time of #ar's marriage, condemns रावण who had offered himself as one of the suitors. जनक says:--" His ( i. e. gar's ) command obeyed (liter. is fond of ) by the crest-jewel of Indra; his novel eye in the form of gas ( all the sciences ); his devotion to 312, the Lord of all creatures; his capital-the magnificent city of #1; his birth in the line of the creator( all these points compel us to say that )---indeed, such a bride-grcom cannot be ( easily ) found. Oh! would that he were not aut! (the harasser of the whole world ); but then, to find all merits together in one man-well, that is an impossibility. Here the figure अर्थान्तरन्यास (general proposition) in the words क्व नु पुन: pag på got: 'ought never to have been introduced, but the verse ought to have ended with the words yra at 1190: The point is that 577% regards all the best qualities of traut ( which may perhaps entitle him to be called a rate --a hero in religion--when taken in themselves ) as utterly useless and worthless simply because he is the torturer of this world. These excellences in a person, impious and harasser of mankind, are not worth the name. The quality of being a crau ( harasser of the word ) condemns TI9u once for all. Thus the utter condemnation of traut is the main point. Now the question 'Is it possible that all merits are found in one man ?' is utterly out of place; here the question may be taken in the sense of raising a doubt or objecting to what is said before or laying down a general proposition; in any case the words 47 I gai
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