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હતુબિન્દુને પરિચય its deep sayings. It will be absorbed by, and perish in, my own person, just as a river (which is absorbed and lost) in the ocean. Those who are endowed with no inconsiderable force of reason, even they cannot fathom its depth. Those who are endowed: with exceptional intrepidity of thought, even they cannot perceive its highest truth."1
"Another stanza is found in anthologies and hypothetically ascribed to Dharmakirti, because it is to the same effect. The poet compares his work. with a beauty which can find no adequate bridegroom. What was the creator thinking about when he created the bodily frame of this beauty! He has lavishly spent the beauty stulf! He has not spared the labor ! He has engendered a mental fire in the hearts of people who thereto fore were living placidly ! And she herself is also wretchedly unhappy, since she never will find a fiance to match her!”
“In this personal character Dharmakirti is repor: ted to have been very proud and self-reliant, full of contempt for ordinary mankind and sham scholar1 अनध्यवसितावगाहनमनल्पधीशक्तिनाप्यदृष्टपरमार्थतत्त्वमधिकाभियो गैरपि । मतं मम अगत्यलब्धसाशप्रतिग्राहक प्रयास्यति पयोनिधेः पय इच स्व देहे जराम् ॥
-Quoted in Dhvanyaloha (N. S. P. 1891), p. 217. 2 zavaslaureat anfora: astaršia,
स्वच्छदं चरतो जनस्य हृदये चिन्ताज्वरी निर्मितः । एषाऽपि स्वयमेव तुल्यरमणाभावाद्वराकी इता, कोऽर्थ श्वेतसि वेधसा विनिहितस्तन्व्यास्तनुं तन्वता ।
Ibid. p. 216.
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