________________
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Lesson 4
O
Vajjālagga
Poetry is composed with great difficulty. On composing poetry its recitation is made with difficulty. If reciting persons are present, listeners are difficult to find.
Having kept both the hands on head, the orphan verse which has been composed with difficulty by good poets, weeps when the ignorant (reader) carelessly spoils (the reading of verse).
Who is not pleased with Prākṛta verses? Who does not remember dear friends? And who is not afflicted by the honoured beneficent person having been oppressed.
The flavor which grows from Prākṛta poetry (does not take us to dispiritedness). Just as through the words spoken by the wise man and by means of fragrant cold water we do not resort to dispiritedness.
Prakrta Prose and Verse Jain Education International
Salutation to Prākṛta poetry and (to him also) by whom Prākṛta poetry has been composed, and we also salute those who having read (Prākṛta poetry) also understand (it).
For Private & Personal Use Only
35 www.jainelibrary.org
