Vajjalaggam

SR No.: 001383
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jayvallabh
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 708
Language: Prakrit, Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 13 MB

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25. SECTION ON THE MĀLATI FLOWER
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bees give up(be freed from) the botheration (drudgery) of dancing attendance upon other flowers.
229) Let (all) the other varieties of flowers bloom with their overpowering (strong, oppressive) fragrance. In the case of the bee, however, the Mālatī-flower alone (and none else) is the cause of uneasiness.
230) Oh bee, why do you turn your face away on seeing the tiny (undeveloped) Mālatī-bud? It is from that same tiny bud that (in course of time) there will emanate a fragrance pervading the world through and through (spreading throughout the world).
231) What have you to do with the tininess of the Mālatī and with the thinness of its petals? (i.e. don't bother about both these things). Oh bee, you will be convinced of the Mālatī's greatness (power) in her (maddening) fragrance.
232) The (whole) forest is so abundantly pervaded by the fragrance of Mālati flowers in autumn, that here and there and (for the matter of that) anywhere, the bees are to be seen only with difficulty (outside of that forest).
233) What possible rivalry can other flowers put up with the Mālati-flower? For bees, which are (merely) besmeared with its fragrance (i.e. which merely come into contact with its fragrance), are drunk (sucked) by other bees (which mistake the former to be Mālati- flowers).
234) The Mālatī creeper, having raised its beckoning finger, under the guise of its bud, proclaimed with its fragrance (i.e. gave a challenge with its fragrance) : "Let that youthful bee who is able to capture me, come near me and take possession of me!''
235) Behold, it is only the Mālatī, who, though trembling (shuddering) and feeble, is able to bear the (jerks and jolts caused by the) vibrations of the wings, the lacerations caused by the nails and the proboscis and the sustaining of the body-weight of the bee.