Book Title: Bhavisayatta Kaha
Author(s): Kavi Dhanpal, C D Dalal
Publisher: Baroda Central Library

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________________ 34 8. "The throne, with the royal umbrella and the chouries without the king to occupy it, was as it were laughing in chagrin and shame.' 10-11. The house, seeing a stranger strolling in the council hall of king Yasodhana, is as it were shedding tears in the form of the pearls that dropped from a wreath'. A beautiful Utpreksā. XI. He goes through the places for keeping weapons and musical instruments etc. one after the other and at last coming to a Jina temple, enters it. 3—4. 891 gaig... of oftere etc.-He smelt a fragrant smell, which was as it were a sorrowful sigh of the presiding deity of the house'. 6. All the musical instruments had assumed a silence with the thought that there would be no body to play upon them.' XII. He enters the temple, that was beautifully constructed and richly decorated. He bathed in the beautiful lotus-pond in front of it and went in to worship Jina Candraprabha. 1. Bhavisa is afing only by courtesy. Or the literal meaning of the word should be taken the best of men.' 1. vetratsThis island is said to have been discovered by Indra.' 4. Et fan a etc.-(The temple in the lustre of the best jewels with which its walls were inlaid) appeared like a picture with a girdle firnily fixed.' 6. It was marked with a thick layer of Sandal ointment. 9. 'He approached the bearer of pure lustre,' i. e. Candraprabhanātha. 11. THIS fa-Fruity cat. XIII. Bhavisayatta offers a prayer to the Jina, whose advice liberated the world, who single-handed brought enlightenment to people, etc, etc. 1. One ce is an adjective and the other the name. 2. He is a Locative usual to the Māhārastri, but we find it not infrequently in Apabhramsa. Cf. Tisatthilakkhanagunalankāra of Pupphadanta. 2. A TEMPH etc.—When (the period of) victory was running and when Tassa was the Tirtheba.' 4. "Whose tallness was measured by the span of hundred bows.' 7. मिच्छत्तमोहं निण्णासियं-Who has dispelled the ignorance of falsehood or illusion'. Mark the change of gender of the word te 9. At-Is an object of afas and yet it shows no case ending. Translate 'Who, in order to give perpetual quietude to his unswerving devotees, promul. gated the doctrine of compassion in the world of mortals.' SANDHI V. Bhavisayatta, sleeping in that temple gets a dream, following which he sees, in a house near the temple, a beautiful young girl all alone. He knows

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