Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics Part 02

SR No.: 006960
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: B L Institute of Indology
Publication Year: 1990
Total Pages: 768
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Chapter XV : (Vägbhata's Kävyānuśāsana)
*1. The festal month of Caitra conveys through the sweet cooing of the kokila the
command of the powerful God of Five Arrows : Youth that swells your breasts to roundness lasts for a short while, not more than five or ten days. Therefore
give up your pride (or sulkiness) and look at your lover with an eye of excitement. *2. (King - (To the Jester, aside) :
As she shot, across her ear, sharp sidelong glances through the corners of her eyes, I felt blanched as if I was bathed in liquid camphor or (bright) moonlight or covered with the powder of pearls.
*3. At the moonrise which has filled up (i.e., pervaded) the white buds (of night
blooming lotuses) with the splendour of the moonlight and which buds are laden completely with fragrance, the bee surrounded by a series of blooming petals, producing sweet humming sound tastes (or enjoys) in the oblong wells opposite the mansions the drinking of beverage in the form of the honey in the night - blooming lotuses.
*4. Victory to King Siddharāja (Jayasimha) whose title is ‘kuța-varața' and who has
brought the whole earth by extirpating all other royal dynasties and establishing his own rule.
*5. For translation vide KP S. No. (40.428) supra.
*6. Feelings (portrayed) in lyrical poems, coquettish gestures of young women,
words of the best of poets, the lispings of children ---- whose hearts will fail to be fascinated by them?
*7. For translation vide śP S. No. (87.58) supra. *8. For translation vide DHV S. No. (1.6) supra.
*9. Innuendoes and sidelong glances darting out of leaden eyes ? don't count. In
a village where there are shrewd people even the way you breathe is interpreted
correctly. *10. For translation vide ŚP S. No. (311.107) supra.