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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VAJJALAGGAM
pun on ait: appears to be intended by the author. But its exact point is not clear. The commentator understands al in Aici as an interjection in the sense of a, 'alas'. It is not clear how he construes and understands #f.
742) गुरुविहववित्थर, masses or heaps of excessive wealth. उत्थमिर = 57:Harita (VFÅ + $7, 97 suffix in the sense of atska). JİH represents v Satan, V39nt in Sanskrit and means to prop, to support. T would have an active sense and would mean "one who is in the habit of or is given to supporting or propping up". But that does not suit here. It would be better to read उत्थभिए (for उत्थभिरे) "one who is propped up or supported by his excessive wealth', i.e. raised aloft or elevated to a high position by his excessive wealth. Bifernt mendicants, supplicants. Aral
=41: (fasi:), going unrewarded, unsatisfied, ungratified. Or Ami may be taken as standing for fami:, distressed, miserable, wretched, cf. st. 116. This stanza refers to the belief that the fruits of the Palāśa tree are not edible. See the third quarter of the next stanza.
743) Temoigg = Talfaliģista, in solitary (unfrequented) regions. farijih means a bower or arbour, a place overgrown with shrubs and creepers. Here it can mean only a place or region (962T). EST = Hà:, potential second person singular form VET (U). Ao fà 9a53
1, whose fruits are pleasant to eat even in a slight degree. A 953 on azt, who can adjudge your worth: Cf. st. 710 92 3941 28 ठविज्जति.
744) HENA intent on drying up the moisture (of the ocean), FETTA HE FEET AHTANAEI 77977 is not aware of it. Fis may be connected either with alufes in the sense of 'clearly' or with a (yoka) in the sense of 'really, verily'. 77 94 74 yarn, neither you, nor the surface of the world would fare well. The sense is perhaps as follows: the ocean is so vast that it is not even aware of the submarine fire burning in one part of it. But if the occan comes to know about it, what would happen ? Both the submarine fire and the world will not be there, i.e. they will not fare well, they will come into trouble. The moment the ocean comes to know about the presence of the submarine fire, the ocean would completely overpower and extinguish it with its immense masses of water. But if the submarine fire is extinguished in this manner, the