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meaning also is obcure. If we stick to our reading fast roft Furföt árate, with a slight change viz. separating duft and y, the meaning of the two lines would be 'Lord! I do not get peace of mind due to people, so long as people are averse, and my father (Fofur loc.) is in prison' (auf from Aue or more). . 11. अणुज्जुअवित्तिहिं of our Mss. is better than Jacobi's अणुज्जुअधित्तिए which ( a) makes no sense. The king compliments Bhavisa on his straightforwardness, greutaf-2759fer. In the latter half read, with Jacobi, a fa-agufa..
SANDHI XI How the citizens prevail upon the king and effect the release of Dhanavai. The test of Bhavisāņuruvās fidelity. How in the end the two young people are united,
1. One day the king calls his secret emissaries and wants to know how people were behaving. They tell him that there was grave dissatisfaction on account of the punishment of Dhaņavai.
4. Better to read argite, with Jacobi, for atgfte aand a are written almost alike.
10. Jacobi reads Fryefa-F901€. 13. 479-maya:-Unanimous (in an opinion).
15. If the King would not forgive him, thap let us all together leave the city'. Pretty early example of 'passive resistance and collective action.'
II. The King calls the people together and asks them what they want. They tell him that Bandhu might be banished from the city of given a harder punishment, but Dhaņavai must be set free,
4. Separate ca from feft.
7. 378 TE should be read separately. 7 @alfata (aarte i. e. ?) tia:-one who is attached to destruction of people.'
9. Latter half देव पट्टणहो for देवपट्टणहो।
III He does as they desire. Bhavisa then says that the king should call his young wife there and should test her fidelity at the hands of trusted women, so that no one should afterwards find fault with her and himself.
2. Separate ar from af
4. Construe ara a fancys ates y sala fara gif gre fac95. 'Before dispersing, I have to make another request.' Jacobi reads a c9g separately.
5. "There is no event (in the realm) of Vişņu, which does not happen in this world to a living being.' 1 6. Jacobi's edition has not got this line. But the next line for at
jat (which by the by is metrically faulty), presupposes some clause,
