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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over her head, not the swarms of bees, but many hair-braids (auftDET), hanging loose, and thus symbolic (fatus) of her condition of widowhood (algo), which she had suffered in the past many a time at the passing away of many kings (E T ).
1063. It is heard (1995) being said that this King of ours, as the great god Visnu, has often seen (gog) and interviewed the Earth, when she stood before him (of #f3T) in a bodily form of a woman.
King Yasovarman is an illustrious scion of the lunar race, or a race descending from the moon. Mythology speaks of the moon as the son of Atri, produced from his eye.
1064. The fact that the moon has taken his birth from the eye of the sage Atri is borne out by the fact that he has on the surface of his orb a circular spot which very much resembles the eye-pupil (art). Another poet fancies that the moon must have been produced, not from the eye of Atri, but from that of the god of Love. Cf. spai garcazutfit sumata gfal #: #7527 प्रज्ञापरिचयपराधीनमनसाम् । सुधानामाधारः स खलु रतिबिम्बाधरसुधा-। रसासेकस्निग्धादजनि नयनात् पुष्पधनुषः ॥ सुभा०
1065. The race of the lord of night (T3TUITE) is the same as Candra-Vamśa or lunar race, claiming descent from the Moon. It is divided into two great branches, the Yādavas and the Pauravas, respectively descended from Yadu and Puru. Krsna belonged to the line of Yadu, and Dusyanta, with the Kuru and Pandu princes, to the line of Puru.
Such are the personal charms of this King that even enemies, girls brought over to bed with him become highly susceptible to passionate reactions. ( 1066–1069)
1066. The captive girls, when they meet him in bed-chamber, stand near him with faces downcast. Slowly they lift up their dull, languid faces to look at him, with eyes opened wide in the excitement (Ft) of nervous, fear (FET). The moment they see him, they are thrilled with joy (TEST), as a result of which their eyes drop down (समुत्तरइ), getting blurred (विरलाSTART) in between the upper and lower eye-lashes (TFEDTS), 1067. Their delicate hand, like a tender sprout (<
f ), stays (afh3t) on their bosom, covered with a silken, fluttering