________________ involves pain due to a blow etc. There is no clue to make out which situation is referred to here. The second reference is to illustrate Dharma-srngara, which relates to the Srngara that involves pious acts like observance of vows performed with a view to earn merit and obtain one's welfare. Nandayanti's giving feast to Brahmanas is said there to have that purpose. Raghavan has rightly suggested that the following passage quoted in ND. (p. 94) as from the Fifth Act of PD. to illustrate the Apavada Anga of the Vimarsa Sandhi which involves expressing fault of one's own or of others and, relates to Nandyanti's course of regular acts of propitiation that she was going through during her period of exile : ब्राह्मण : मार्जिता हि बाह्मणस्य मुख-मधुर: कालपाशः / Tenha - हत: पत्रो हतो भ्राता हतो मार्जितया पिता / तथाप्येनां स्व-गोत्री निन्दामिव पिबामि च // Brahmana - To a Brahman marjita (rich dish of spiced sweet curds) is really a sweet noose of death. For My son was killed, my borther was killed, my father was killed by marjita. Yet I drink this. destroyer of my clari, like blame.' (Warder's translation). Receiving report form Kuvalaya about the whereabouts of Nandayanti, Samudradatta plans to go to the tribal settlement to meet Nandayanti. Some rumours spread by Asokadatta and others about Nandayanti's character had come to Samudradatta's ears. So with his mind clouded and torn by [14]
