Vajjalaggam

SR No.: 020873
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M V Patwardhan
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 706
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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4. THE SKCTION ON THE GOOD
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27) These are the sins (faults) to which a reciter of poetry is Jiable : not pausing at the proper place (caesura), absence of the correct conveyance of the emotional appeal, disregard for the propriety of place (and time), nasalisation, haste, facial distortions and contortions and violation of the laws of melody.
28) Prakrit poetry which is marked by the use of Deśya (provincial, regional) words, which has sweet (pleasing) sounds, which is cast in metrical form, which is graceful and whose sense is clear (1912) obvious (F422) and transparent () deserves to be studied read) (by all).
29) While Prākrit poetry, charming, full of sweet (pleasing) sounds (diction), loved by young ladies and characterised by the sentiment of love is available, who can possibly bear to read Sanskrit (poetry)?
30) Ignorant persons, who, devoid of the knowledge of prosody and grammar, recite poetry in the midst of learned peo-ple, do not know that their heads are severed and felled by the swords of the eye-brows (of learned people) (arched and twisted in disapproval and ridicule).
31) Our homage to Prākrit poetry and to those who have -composed it. To them too, who know how to recite Prakrit poetry (properly), we pay our homage.
4. The Section on the Good 32) The moon, the divine (desire-granting) tree and Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth and beauty) sprang up (emerged) in the course of the churning of the ocean. But I wonder from where good (virtuous) persons sprang up-pray, tell me.
33) A virtuous man, possessed of a pure (spotless) nature, though tarnished (villified) by wicked people, becomes all the more glorious (bright), just as a mirror, pure and shining by nature, though overlaid (and rubbed) with ashes, becomes all the more pure and bright.
34) A virtuous person never gets angry (with any body); even if he gets angry (once in a while), he does not harbour