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The chief difference in the characteristics of and should be noted carefully, as the resemblance between the two is likely to create confusion.
In a (1) there is no sense of being hemmed in with calamities.
(2) the hero in is never satisfied with the immediate retaliation, but has loftier aims.
(3) He has no false or hazy notions about the work he has to do.
While in
(1) the hero is full of self-egotism and infatuation and dismay ( मोहविस्मयप्राधान्यम् ).
(2) He may adopt crooked and horrible means to destroy his enemy.
(3) He is full of self-conceit.
His natural in women and low characters ( स्त्रीनीचप्रकृतीनां स्वाभाविकम् ); in high characters the fear produced by some external reason, is not genuine. Verse 114 (from fat) is a model illustration of an excellent picture of the frightened deer when hotly chased by दुष्यन्त.
"It is frequently casting glances at my chariot with a graceful bent of his neck. Owing to its fear of the arrows, it is contracting its hinder part and thrusting it into the fore-part. It has strewn the path with the half-chewed grass falling from its gaping mouth; with its high bounds it seems to be more in the air than on the earth.
It is said above that in high characters fear is not genuine. An objection is raised to this statement as follows:
Why should the kings (for instance) show a mock fear towards their preceptors? Moreover why.
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