________________
14
8 Are Latajatah kva yatah pranastah, patista'pi Dravida vridyarttāḥ; Aho vādilipsāture mayyamusmin jagatyutkatam vādidurbhiksametat. 8
8 Alas! where have the learned men of लाट देश Lata desa. a country south of Broach and learned men of urfers Drāvida a country in south India, disappeared, distressed by shame? Myself being always eager to meet acontroversialist, there has become, an extraordinary scarcity of controversialists in this world. 8.
तस्य ममाऽग्रे कोऽसौ वादी सर्वज्ञमानमुद्रहति? । इति तत्र गंतुमुत्कं तमग्निभूतिर्जगादेवं ॥ ६ ॥
9 Tasya mamā'gre ko'sau vādi sarvagnamānamudva hati;
Iti tatra gantumutkam tam Agnibhūti r--jagādaivam 9.
9 Who is this controversialist before me, who bears the conceit of being called a Sarvajna ? When he was contemplating thus, Agnibhūti said to him who was very desirous of going there, as follows:
किं तत्र वादिकीटे तव प्रयासेन ? यामि बंधोऽहम् । कमलोन्मूलनहेतोनेंतव्यः किं सुरेन्द्रगजः ? ॥ १० ॥ 10 Kim tatra vādikite tava prayāsena ? yāmi bandho'bam;
Kamalonmūlana heto r-neta vyah kim surendra-gajah ? lo
10 Why should you take trouble for the afte Vadi kita the worm of a controversialist? O brother! I am going. Should the stately elephant of Indra be led for the purpose of uprooting a lotus ?
अकथयदथेन्द्रभूतियद्यपि मच्छात्रजय्य एवासौ ।
तदपि प्रवादिनाम भूत्वा स्थातुं न शक्नोमि ॥ ११ ॥ 11 Akathayadathendrabhūtir-yadyapi macchátrajyya evāsau;
Tadapi pra vādināma śrutvā sthātum na saknomi. 11
