Amrita Collected Papers by A M Ghatage

SR No.: 006968
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad
Total Pages: 530
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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Māhārāştri Language and Literature
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of pollens thrown by the lover and heaving with emotion249 A wily girl wishing to be touched by the youth cries falsely that her hand is burnt by fire 250
There are many verses giving interesting situations. While the traveller drinks water for a long time by letting drop it through his fingers, the girl also makes the jet of water very thin, both with the desire of looking at each other for a long time251. The travellers only see the eyes of the woman beautiful in all her limbs, who guards the rice-field and who wards off the birds252. Here and there some advice is given, while descriptions of nature are often to be found. The advent of the rainy season is described as, the clouds rumbling, the Nīpa buds blooming, the peacocks dancing and the moonlight obscured253. The beauty of a lady is said to put forth sprouts in the foliagelike-hands, as blooming with eyes and giving out fruits with the breasts. A blunt way of expressing love is found in a verse when the lady asks the boy, ill-taught as he is in the use of black letters, to embrace her neck and then she never minds if both go to hell254. Curious and out of the way ideas are also to be met with as when the poet is compared to a thief, with the help of Slesa; the poet puts his words with caution, the thief places his foot with care; the poet takes care of the style, the thief often looks at the way; the poet often finds it difficult to get at the desired meaning, the thief finds it hard to get wealth255.
In the Kävyānuśāsana, Hemacandra quotes some 60 verses in the text and some 20 in the commentary. Most of them are quoted in earlier works and only few new ones are found. In one we find a bull addressed to remain silent, it being a suggestion to a paramour to be satisfied 256. In another a traveller is advised to go another way as the one he is taking is infested by a woman whose snare is difficult to be broken through257. A verse gives an address of a friend to a lady to walk very carefully, lest she break her slender waist which was produced by the creator with so much exertion258 A woman says to her lover that it is not his body marked with nails nor his eyes rolling with sleep that trouble her heart as much as his lower lip unbitten 259. An ironic expression is given in a verse where the poet offers his salutation to the moon who makes the lotuses which are soft, beautiful and of pure fibre and opening at the touch of the rays of the sun, devoid of lustre 260. A lady points out that her beauty is fine, the lover's affection is strong and the circle of friends is clever, then no use to paint the feet261.
Dhanika quotes 26 Präkrit verses in his Avaloka of which 10 remain