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has come back again. R afaeg see i. 28 above; the reading is obscure, and hence my suggestion in the light of what I have said at i. 28. Here the figure of speech is ja E
36. ffxtra; is a possessive termination ( Hc. ii. 159 ) put to विडिर, a देशी word meaning terror.
37. The figure of speech here is g .
38. 3jxy 3i=3 TESETTA, a case of direct corruption. Note the opening conjuncts of 693718AM in 37 and of ons here.
39. I have taken affat as a Gerundive form on the ar.alogy of ठाविअ-स्थापयित्वा (iv. 12 below ), though the छाया equates it with gy4f4a. There is rhyme at the close of lines a&b and c& d. We can see how the author is finding out an opportunity to give a description of the town of Hy which follows in the subsequent verses. In this very context m. also has a description of AYTT (TITO 10. 41. 19 etc.), but beyond a few words there is nothing particularly common. Some ideas and words remind us of the description of art ft in fretro iii. 33 etc. Just to avoid the repetition of sense I have taken Totarat once as 'a capital' and a second time ‘ a royal residence'.
40. au UEFIC=797907TATAT:, thus the doubling of q is either euphonic or for the sake of metre.
41. If the reading was gied, then it would have qualified of. The town of मथुरा threatens as it were the celestial town of अमराat which it has already surpassed by its prosperity. The figure of speech is 36789T.
42. Het is one of the seven islands of which the world is made up. It stands surrounded by the ocean. In its centre stands the mountain #5 with its golden peaks on which the
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