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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82. Did the moonlight heighten the intoxication (frenzy) brought by wine ? or, did
the intoxication (frenzy) heighten the effect of the moonlight ? Did both of them heighten the power of passion ? or, did passion bring both to the highest point of perfection ?
83. For translaion vide ŚP S. No. (139.69) supra.
84. O, wayfarer, ask some other hunters' families about the skins of spotted deer.
Our young huntsman does not bend his bow (pull his arrow) against deer!
85. When you massaged her foot, out of sheer joy she left in your hand the reward
of a print of the lacpaint from it; exactly as King Vikramāditya appreciated the defeat of his enemies by leaving a rich reward in his general's hand.
86. As the little boy crawled on his father's back, when he lay at her feet, the mother
couldn't help a smile in spite of her terrible sulkiness (jealous anger).
87. She didn't look straight at him nor talk to him though she is generally
open-minded, she didn't even wish him (as one normally does to a visitor). For clever observers there was but only one conclusion."
88. Your heart is as though full of (or created out of) nectar, and your hands fulfil
the desires of those who are full of desires. O, you, with a moon-face, where then does your enemy-scorching prowess abide ?
89. When the commotion that was caused by the mountains that dropped into the
sea settled, the waters of the sea became calm and still again; the currents that were so disturbed flowed together again (the whirlpools broken up by the mountains formed themselves again). Some rocks still continued to move around in the whirlpools and the water of the ocean that had fled away out of fright resumed its usual place again.
10. Cf. ŚPS. No. (145.71) supra.