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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48) The stanza refers to a belief that the sandal-tree does not bear any fruit. We should expect लोयस्स.
for
instead of
50) सूलादिन्नु ग्व ( = शुलादप्त इव) put on the pale. Laber follows the reading सूलाहिन्नु व्व ( = शूलाभिन्न इव) broken or pierced by a pale. The Nominative singular ending in 3 is an Apabhramsa trait. Cf. HS. VIII.7.331. The epithets and hold good in the case of a or a person, who hangs down from the pale in a lifeless and limp manner. But it is difficult to see how they can go with either a खल or an अभिनवऋद्धिक person. The adjective विषमदृष्टिदुष्प्रेक्ष्य holds good in the case of all the three. विषम ( 1 ) Cruel (2) dreadful, terrible. It is possible to explain ft in the case of the , as being equal to afaa, too shrewd to be deceived by anybody. We have here a double comparison, the being compared with an impaled person and with a person who has risen to prosperity suddenly.
51 ) दुम्मुह ( 1 ) = दुर्मुख having an evil face, or = द्विमुख having a double face i.e., double-tongued or double-mouthed, in the case of the (Cf. ale in St. 57), and (2) : द्विमुख having two sharp edges, one at each end, in the case of the nail-cutter.
(1) crooked or narrow in his mind (4), with the (2) narrow or tapering in the middle, in the case of the nail cutter. af आवलित pressed or squeezed, cf. आवळणे in Marathi अत्थिखंडणसमत्थो = (1) अस्ति खण्डनसमर्थ:; (2) अस्तिखण्डन समर्थः (= द्रव्यहरणसमर्थः अस्ति = द्रव्य wealth); (3) अर्थिखण्डनसमर्थ: in the case of the खल; (4) अस्थि खण्डनसमर्थ: in the case of the nail-cutter. (1) creating estrangement between friends intimate like the finger-nail and the flesh out of which it grows, in the case of the , (2) separating the finger-nail from the flesh in which it is embedded and out of which it grows in the case of the nail-cutter. fat can also be explained as bending down at the waist for making a false show of modesty, in the case of the ; and in the case of the nail-cutter it can be equated with मध्यावलमित ( = मज्झावलइअ = मज्झावलिअ ). अवलग्न means narrow or tapering. Cf. कुमारसंभव 1.39 मध्येन सा वेदिविलग्नमध्या.
52) Cf. को न यासि वश लोके मुखे पिण्डेन पूरित: । मृदङ्गो मुखलेपेन करोति मधुरaf Nitiśataka 8.