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
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· 148. When a flock of parrots resembling the green leaves and red fruit (of a banyan
tree) flew up,the travellers, who approaehed the dried up banyantree, laughed and clapped their hands.
149. That simple- minded (or innocent) deer, was so tormented by accursed mirages
that it turned its face away even from real rivers.
151. The castor plant (Eranda) whose leaves have come out of the wholes of the
hedge, proclaims as it were to the young boys : “Here in this house lives a ploughman's wife/ daughter-in-law with such plump breasts" !
152. The mango-bud is not seen, my friend; the Malaya wind too does not blow.
But my heart feels the approach of the Spring, and longs for my dear husband.
153. Mind, dear friend, you will drag your family to dust by your vakra-ullapa
sarcastic talk and that uprorious laughter showing the whole set of your teeth and that gesticulating body.
154. For translation vide (DHV-) Locana S.No. 7.7 supra 155. Her face is like the moon, her lips like nectar (lit. the sweetness of her mouth
like nectar); but what can her kiss be like, squeezed on her lips by catching hold of her by her hair ?
156. My beloved has lotus like hands, plantain-tree like thighs, blue-lotus-like eyes,
moon-like face, fresh Campaka-like limbs and lotus-stalk-like arms. How is it them that with all these cooling attributes she can still torment me ?
157. His (Rāma's) gaze radiated Laksmana's face, like an adornment (i.e. added
to the lustre of his face by comforting him), dwelt admiringly on Sugrīva's broad chest like his garland of sylvan flowers; on Hanūmat, like his fame (i.e. added to the glory of Hanumat, who was already famous for his brilliant achievements) and was a command to the host / army of Vānaras (apes).
158. As the head when chopped off from the stalk of the neck rolled on the ground
petals of the lips quivered, teeth the filaments of teeth of hung loose, and the
honey of blood streamed forth. with its petals quivering oozing out the sap. 159. Kumbhakarna's reply stirred the venom of Rāvana's anger. He sloughed off
his garment and looked more frightening and deadly.