Book Title: 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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(TEua) layers of dust, which they were wiping off from their faces. Ćf. traitstaf watafort: riferat perifera i 7. 83. Also Fiat Fritt farfareuferant afgant arreyri ATO 60.
840. While in captivity, the ladies did not care to comb and arrange (3744T207) their hair. As a result, the hair become rough and threadbare (JTETT) because of hot sighs being breathed over and hanging over the forehead, they reduced its size, making it appear small (fr). Cf. Fariffs CTHUHETHER Yt i गण्डाभोगात कटिनविषमामेकवेणीं करेण || मेघ. 85. शद्धस्नानात परुषमलक TTITS0721 T0 88. Their action of tying such locks of their hair in order that they may look presentable, suggests their newfound interest.in the King. Cf. trauffre4GTIGTHT HGGIHTS: naut FSET I Com.
841. The ladies began looking at the King with soft, eager and wistful eyes in their fresh joy of love for the King, having somehow wiped away the tear-particles clinging to their eye-lashes (972), which languidly ( मंथरिअ) blinked in their sockets (परिवेस). Cf. स्वभर्तृ विरहादिक्लेशजाश्रुपातस्योत्पुंसनं, राजराजाभिलाषानन्दाभिनवाश्रुणश्च gafari ! Com.
842. 39 - Without betel-leaves chewed. - arasBetel; a Deśī word. aga - a - A skin or scab formed over a bruise, after the bleeding has stopped.
847. In my efforts to speak in praise of our Master, words fail to come out (afs37) from my throat, although I try to say them again and again (que). This is due to the great joy I feel, which causes distress and pain (310). The result is, I find my speech is unable ( 37 ofa ) as it were, to do this task.
The king Yaśovarman was an extra-ordinary King, greater than even the King Pșthu who compelled the earth, that had assumed the form and shape of a cow, to yield the usual supply of edible products, giving her a calf in carita #. The legend is told in greater detail in the Introduction.
848. The earth, so long stationed on the hoods of Sesa, leaves him in fright and assumes the shape of a cow. The void (statath - 37872979), that has been created, has been filled by Seşa by swelling (F3TGT3PATUT) his hoods, while the long body (AEE) stretched out (FOTT) in the form of his tail (gue) behind.
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