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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during those nights, bringing lovers under his subjugation and making them enjoy the pleasures of love. May he not harass them any more in the season of spring. He should look elsewhere for different targets. Cf. gaHSTÀTafa: pfc free atacafe fatfert I THET AFC Sthefeatza: 97TFA Tautaar: ffat: 11 #to V. 7.
604. The tender fresh sprouts are very much pink (ECTEUT), because of the fact, perhaps, that their own red sap is taken over (91fa3t) to them from the twigs (HTET), through which they ( sprouts) have cut themselves (fast) to shoot outwards.
605. The mango blossoms are being pounced upon by the swarms of bees. Of them, some succeed in sucking the honey from the blossoms and getting soaked in them, with drops of honey sticking (fag537) to their bodies. Other bees, who cannot get an access to the blossoms, chase these lucky bees and lick the honey-drops from their backs.
608. The heart lingers (rus) with these deserted villages, where, on the sites of dilapidated (JPUTT) houses, trees have grown up, where smoke, a sign of human life, is confined ( 3TT ) only to the houses of cowherds and where very few crows are to be seen perched up, most of them having left because of the scarcity of food crumbs.
610. The wind-current is blowing downward (3941631); hence the leaves of tree-tops shrivel up (315fTOTT) and become still. The trees, therefore, produce a murmuring sound (ntfort) over the aerial path of the downward winds, in line with their tops (FHE EFFH).
611. f... faccifar-( The tree-trunks) resounding with the chirping monkeys (FETART) moving wildly in their frolics. The Com. has erred in his interpretation of this compound, taking it to mean - FTTH Tranfy: HTTS tfacfaut FR595954TTahfuit facturati Com. HIETATTST—IITTAT EST is the same as merat, meaning 'a monkey'.
616. h4t310i- Tamme same as atareyahrH- ( Bees ) who drink honey.
617. Drilling operations are being carried out on hills to obtain stone for building works. When, therefore, big boulders (fa36fHST) are being taken out, they fall down and as a result
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