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Kakavarna, the son of Sisunaga, being curious | vardhana for starting out to conquer the whole of of marvels was carried away, no one knows northern India and especially to wreak vengeance whither, on an artificial aerial car made by a Yavana on Sasanka the king of Gauda. Here also Messrs. condemned to death, and his throat was cut in the Cowell and Thomas have given us a meaningless vicinity of his city. translation by attempting to render a corrupt reading of a passage. The corrupt reading is:
The next sentence in Harsacarita runs thus:
अतिसंगमनगरवासुदेव देव मूर्ति (म) दासी हिला देवी व्यंजनयतीतिमकारयत् ।
This has been translated as follows: In a
frenzy of passion, the over-libidinous Sunga was, at the instance of his minister Vasudeva, reft of his life by a daughter of Devabhûti's slave woman disguised as his queen."
It is a well-known fact to the historian that Devabhuti or Devabhúmi, the last of the Sunga kings was put to death by his minister Vasudeva of the Kanva family. cf. Bhagavata Purana (XII. 1. 18).
शुंगं हत्वा देवभूर्ति करावोऽमात्यस्तु कामिनम् । af dagat aaa: 11 of. also
करबो
Vishnu Purana (IV. 24. 12.)
देवभूतिन्तु शुंगराजानं व्यसनिनं तस्यैवामात्यः वसुदेवनामा निपात्य स्वयमन मोका । Mataya Purana, 272, 32, 33.
cf.
व्यस
आमात्यो वसुदेवस्तु वात्यात् ( वनात् ? ) निनं नृपम् । देवभूमिमथोत्सार्य्यं शीर्गस्तु ( शुंगंतु ) सीदद्दाजिबात्यसादिनि भविता नृपः ॥
also
Hence arrelgic is apparently a copyist's blunder for (4) refigfeur. In the fourth paragraph of the seventh chapter are described the gigantic preparations of Harsa
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werknefodafedicofaanaanka
mean
This has been rendered into "The Dekkan riders disconsolately contended with fallen This has mules." very little meaning. cannot 'fallen, especially when this qualifies a mule. वस्त means परिगलित, क्षरित i.e., disjoined, separated, etc., it may mean 'fallen' when this qualifies a lump of matter. So reader has no meaning or very little meaning. Even though we admit for the sake of argument that it may mean a 'fallen mule' the question naturally suggests itself as to why should mules fall prostrate on the ground in their preparations for departure.
Then we come to विसंवारि in the above passage. The root with the prefix means 'to contend' generally; but here विसंवादि means परिशीलन as sug
gested by the commentator Sanker Mitra, and परिशीलन means "to touch, contact, treating well, patting with caressing;" that is, "breaking in "
is the real meaning here.
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The correct reading would be त्रस्तवेसर विसंवाद
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and the correct translation should be "The Dekken riders were getting tired of breaking in the frightened mules." The above the reading of the manuscripts A, B, and T, collated by Führer.
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