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

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________________ 63 12. Jacobi reads afe and in the glossary gives the meaning 'highly or greatly rough.' He connects with . XXII. The bantering talk of the girls continued. Kamala then returns to her house and tells Bhavisa all that had happened. 1. The text again is hopeless. Read the latter half thus gaga - The poor one had slept on a couch full of bugs'-and hence the marks on her body which had made them suspect that she had been married. This is of course said sarcastically. Jacobi has not understood the spirit of jest, and hence reads मंकुण मचइ सुत्त etc. and gives मृद्भाति as the meaning of मच्चइ. 2. विणु सुत्ते किय गलि कंचुली - Also refers to the thick nail marks on her body, which another girl sarcastically compares with a close half-bodice. 3. That the view above propounded is correct, is shown by this line? One girl says 'Do not joke please'. 4. Separate एहावत्थ and कुमारिह 11. नाडु नवमउं the ninth Tirthaikara SANDHI X Describes how Bhavisatta exposes the perfidy of Bandhu and becomes the kings right hand man. 1. Bhavisa goes again to the king's assembly hall, which is described. 9. 'Whenever any king or vassal entered, he was announced by the tap of a golden staff.' 11. अम्भोट्टजट्टजालंधर etc. these are names of countries whose kings waited upon the king of Hastinapura. अम्भो not yet traced. जह is very likely the country of the Jāts. the present Marwar. the country of that name in the Punjab. r not to be traced. the country of Dakka. कीर, खस and बर्बर are tribe is said in the Mahabharata to have s are the Barbaroi of the Greeks in the North टक or as Jacobi reads it ढक, also not known, although the sprung from Vasistha's cow. West frontier. and not to be traced. The latter perhaps corresponds to of the south. वेराट or वैराट - The ancient विराटनगरी, the modern North Western Rajputana" gar is Gujarat. How much of the modern Gujarat should be included under the name is not clear. गोड is गौड, modern Bengal. लाड is लाट, a twin country with गुज्जर कनre is कर्नाटक, Canara and Mysore of to-day.

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