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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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
unbearable to the hearts of his other wives.
(Verse 13 is treated in the Notes.)
14. Merits become merits when they are appreciated by responsive/sensitive critics,
Lotuses become lotuses only when they are favoured by the Sun's rays.
15. The sky overcast with intoxicated/dizzy clouds, the forests with their Arjuna
trees drooping with rain-drops, and the dark blue nights, with the moon, bereft of the pride of its lustre — they do attract us/make restless.
(Verse 16 is treated in the Notes.)
17. These long and strong arms that have spread their fame for the valour with which
they have shattered the hopes and dreams of the enemies and for the generosity in making gifts are almost like (lit. verily) the magnificent elephants that have crushed the lotuses in Mānasa lake and spread the fragrance and match your generosity by their ceaseless oozing from their temples.
18. Caitra at the front of spring keeps all ready the arrows of love tipped with
mango-blossom and sprays of fresh leaves but it does not yet shoot them out at young women - their usual target..
19. Your upstanding breasts, respectfully aided by youth extend a standing ovation,
as it were, to the God of Love.
20. Wearing pea-cock's plumes/tail feathers as ear ornaments, the (young) wife of
the hunter struts around proudly among her rivals/co-wives who are adorned (only) with pearls (supposed to be found in the projections of an elephant's fore-head.)
21. Beauty is the gift of the moon to the night as of the lotusflowers to pond and
of bunches of flowers to creepers and of swans to autumn. Similarly sensitive critics discover beauty in poetic works (and enhance them).
22. The eyes of warriors do not feel excited by their beloveds' breasts anointed
with saffron as by the temples of the enemy's elephants, painted with vermilion.