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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astir with life and activity, they appear desolate to the lady in question, as she is not able to see her consort anywhere.
376) atofa = qua: are rolling in the quarters i.e. are scanning the quarters. जच्चंधमोत्ति = जात्यन्धमौक्तिक, a pearl which is blind by i.e., from birth i.e. which is born blind. This is an obscure expression. The commentator renders it by viradai false or counterfeit pearl,which is path, 4 and icon i.e. a strange mixture of these three shades, constituting a serious blemish. A counterfeit pearl is called F14, perhaps because it is not able to see or meet any one who would like to pick it up. Just as counterfeit pearls move about or wander from place to place without meet. ing anyone who would care to pick them up, so her eyes are scanning the quarters, without meeting the object of their longing.
377) = Hāla 208, where we have the reading for fts for Parafite, 2753 7787 = 274 ma: = 39 atalgoferal fatt ma: / 8157, though an indeclinable, is here inflected, as if it were a noun. See the remarks on face in St. 150 and 4f in st. 221. 34 is the subject and art is the predicate. Today i.e. one day has gone away, another day is over, a third day has come to an end". Even in the first half-day of her consort's departure, the Nāyikā inscribed quite a large number of lines on the wall of her house, each line standing for one day. She felt every moment of her separation from her consort as one tediously long day, so that even during the first half-day, she had passed through the torturing experience of having lived through a large number of days away from her consort. One half-day was packed as it were with the tortures and sufferings of a large number of days. qah fiqu=46# feat, a being shortened into under the pressure of the following conjunct and then changed into 34. Cf. the shortening of all in the case of the Nominative singular form of masculine nouns ending in 37) into 3 and then the transformation into 34 of which we have numerous examples in Prakrit. Cf. ein feat=217 f624, st. 393.
378) = Hāla 206, where the reading is Higatif sestefarent in the second quarter and a fantasy art fan in the third quarter. The background of the stanza appears to be as follows:-A certain lady used to inscribe on the wall of her apartment one line every day to represent each day of her consort's absence from home. Her
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