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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fragrance of (chewed) betel leaves, mingled with the smell of wine sipped in small quantity" (781). "Thus does his eye rest on these young girls, who, in their innocence, indulged in love's continuous enjoyment (to satisfy ) their sexual desire for the first time, languid in their covert dalliance (with him )” (796). Personal Account :
Now follows an important chapter of the Gaüdavaho in which the Poet strikes an autobiographical note and gives us some details of his personal life. He tells us that “he, Bappai-rãa, ( Vākpatirāja ) a drop in the ocean of the King Yašovarman's favourites, was decorated with the distinctive title of Kavirāja (797) and that he was held in high esteem by the Poet Kamalāyudha" (798). “ His special features as a poet are but the spray-particles of poetic nectar churned out from the ocean of Bhavabhūti's (works) " (799). “ He found great delight in (the works of Bhāsa - Jvalanamitra, Kuntideva, ( Kālidāsa ) -- the author of Raghuvamsa, Subandhu and Harichandra" (800). * Scriptures, works on Grammar or Mimāmsā, Prosody, Bharata's Nātyasāstra, Gautama's Nyāya System, legendary narratives (such as Mahabharata and Purānas), as also the works of many other outstanding poets have been his source of great delight” (802). "His own graceful display of poetic speech, full of sentiment, is full of substance, brilliant and solid in thought (801) and hence his listeners, (as they hear), nod their heads in wonder, pushing down, what they have heard, to make room, as it were, for more poetic excellences that would follow" (803). A Request made :
(On one occasion) they preferred their request to the Poet to tell them about our King Yašovarman, as