Gaudavaho

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

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Gaüdavaho
190. The servants attending have kept on wearing the same dress for such a long time and therefore it has lost its brightness. It now looks like an old painting greyish with dust.
192. णिमिल्ल... माहप्पे - निमीलितमेघ माहात्म्ये At a time when the greatness of clouds closes i. e. comes to an end, when the rainy season is over.
The good, auspicious omens, that visited him when he started on his campaign, are described in the next 9 gāthās forming a Kulaka (193-201).
193. A shower of tender sprouts from the Kalpatarus (heavenly trees) greets him. It is interspersed or intensified with the pollen of blossoms () and gems clashing against one another (परोप्परावडण )
196. The moon has a halo round his orb, perhaps formed by the encircling arms of his beloved Rohini, who has about her wrist a bracelet of gems in the form of planets. Cf. प्रसन्नेन गुरुसूतकेण ग्रहवलयेनैकेन कान्ताकरकटकेन प्रयुक्त इत्यर्थः । Com.
197. In the course of their dancing, as the girls move on, they embrace one another, as a result of which the jewelled necklaces on their big breasts clash (faf) and produce jingling sounds, the time for the dance being kept up by means of cymbals (कंस ) :
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The earth is supposed to have precious treasures of jewels buried underneath, being guarded by huge snakes. These treasures also have started moving on with the King's expeditionary forces. As a result, the jewels are shooting up underneath, making the earth's surface uneven.
199. Indra would have very much liked to view this festive occasion with all his thousand eyes fully open. But he cannot do so, as the fragrant powder (a), showered by the heavenly nymphs, got into his eyes, which, as a result, can only be slightly -opened by him. Cf. वासः कर्पूरादिवासितः चतुः समादिद्रव्यविशेषः । स हि महोत्सवेष्वावर्तेषु सुरसुन्दरीभिः प्रकीर्यंते नायकवक्त्रादिषु । Com.
200. The Poet indulges in a wild fancy in this Gāthā. He imagines buntings of tender leaves of the heavenly trees in the canopy of the sky and he also gives a fanciful picture of the gods'
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