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Chapter VI : ŠķNGĀRAPRAKĀŠA (VOL.I) -
1. The things that we see around do not please the mind as much as when they
are presented in a proper manner in proper words by reputed poets.
2. The whole lot of smouldering smoke making the place dark and your (younger)
brother-in-law standing over there to kiss your mouth, do you think, you will at all finish the work of blowing the fire to flame?
3. The very idea of visiting the daughter of the village - chief in a secluded mountain
village, with its enclosure broken by a wild buffalo thrills me.
(Verse 4 is obscure)
5. Bow down to Vişnu, who is high without being heightened, massive, without
growing in height, pervasive without being extensive, deep without being low / small, infinitesimal without being light, and who is manifest without being precisely known / yet beyond comprehension, inscrutable.
6. Bow down to Siva who has fallen prostrate in front of Gauri (i-e-, Pārvati) to
appease her jealous anger in all his eleven forms - ten reflected in the nails of her ten toes clear as mirrors and himself the eleventh.
7. A feast upon the flesh of fallen men, a thousand pots of fat and a never-ending
drink of blood : May the war go on for hundreds of years.
(Verse 8 : Please note that this passage in Apabhraíba and all other such passages hereafter are left untranslated - V.M.K)
14. (Rāma with the army of the Vānaras crossed the ocean.) After crossing the ocean
the Vānaras beheld the Suvela mountain that seemed to occupy the whole of the southern region and extend over the remaining regions raising its great peaks to overshadow the whole world.
(The following verse concludes the long description of the Suvela mountain.)
1. Note: The translation follows the emended text : "699 - 31T - CHUT - HUKET"
| SR No. | 006960 |
| Book Title | Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics Part 02 |
| 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 |