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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560. The wild fire, raging in forests, has burnt down big i rees. The places where it happened are indicated by the long lines of ashes to be seen on spots, where they were laid low on their sides (Tramita) by the flames of fire.
563. The lands on the borders (78 ) are daily (agar) being ploughed. The vegetation, that grows as a result, develops leaves of plants with black stems (BETOT). The reason perhaps is that they have sucked (89737) the iron (3774) of the ploughshare in the course of every day friction ifugh) when the lands were being tilled.
565. The roads have already on their surface a thin layer of earth. On this fall heavy, piercing blobs of dust, raised by strong winds. It looks as if these blobs serve the purpose of sealing (f€37) the roads tight by means of sparse drops of water placed on them.
573. 9 737 - PYCUT: 'Lands'. Of. Tafa FuM165: fahruha ATEFTefo 347775fenteafa typT: 1 Com.
574. The showers have washed away the dust in between the leaves (aa) of creepers and thus a void (HUOTTT) has been created between the leaves. The breezes can move quicker, unobstructed, as they are now, by the layers of dust between the leaves.
575. The forest-fires have been erratic in their burning fury. Many a yellow patch of grass has escaped from its clutches.
579. An evening walk on the sandy mounds is pleasing, not only in itself, but by an opportunity it gives to observe the birds over there stealthily moving away in fear from us, all the time glancing with slanting, oblique necks turned at us to observe our movements.
582. The forest-lands are lovely with travellers resting under the shade, while looking out at the farthest ends of the grounds. The Kankola trees, the crops of pulses like tūr and gram and herds of monkeys fill the landscape roundabout.
583. गोर. . . वट्ठाणं - ( The करहाट flowers) whose backside surfaces are tawny-coloured (fqat like the broad cheeks of a love-sick lady suffering from the separation of her man. Cf. उदयति हि शशाङक: कामिनीगण्डपाण्डुः । मृच्छ. I.