Gaudavaho

Author(s): Vakpatiraj, Narhari Govind Suru, P L Vaidya, A N Upadhye, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

Page 377

Gaüdavaho
716. “Leaving her (favourite ) abode on your right arm, how (possibly) will Lakşmi dwell on your sword? - Ah! we know; what is seen is just her reflection in it (sword ), stationed, as She is, here ( on your right arm )."
717. “The merits of the people, O Master, do not become so manifest ( known ) merely by their own eminence, as when they get famous after having been decorated with honours by you !”
718. “It is not, indeed, for the first time that you have been put to the trouble of knitting your eye-brows (in frowns ) by your enemies, joining their heads to your footstool, in fear, as it were, of their offence.”
719. “By the uninterrupted streams of tears of the wives of your enemies, O Master, the long creepers of their trembling tresses of hair appear to have been rooted (underground ) as it were.”
720. “How can Laksmī, like a young girl, derive pleasure (in staying) with those who have no manliness (in them) ? All women, however, with great difficulty, come to like such a condition of having to stay (with the unmanly).”
721. “Some (of your enemies ) exhausted (jhiņā) themselves ( to death ) on your sword; others came to you ( to surrender and) seek refuge with you. The remaining enemies also escaped to the sea, while some of them found shelter (somehow) somewhere (God knows where ) !”
722. “Men born in one (and the same ) family either go down (in disgrace) or rise high up (in glory ), like roots and sprouts (emanating) from one common seed (-- roots going down under and sprouts growing tall) over the earth.”
723. “The censure of fickleness ( attaching) to Lakşmi has been completely wiped out only (navara) by you. She, too, gave you overlordship without, however, the evil traits (and tendencies ) of a supreme master ( dictator ). ”
724. “This, O King, looks somewhat contrary in you, who are (fortified by) the strength of (thought and ) discretion: you are afraid of faults; but the faults have made themselves scarce in
you !"
725. “On the horizons of all directions, o King, your merits are seen to be overhanging, brightened as they are, having