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in revelry, and being drunk deep dances arcant with his wife and tramples on rebellous demons. With these details in view, he is really घोर, fierce or terrible, but still he is called अघोर, माघ also has expressed a similar idea that भौमदिन, though अप्रशस्त, is called by the name $3-7 TÅRTH Efa ATA 4f#Chagua Daftarfa 1421 LITHI TEHf9 $a TAT: 11 xv. 17.
41. We may read हरिस्सरूवं or हरिस्स रूवं, and accordingly it may be rendered हरिस्वरूपं or हरे रूपं. Upto the close of verse 44 we have the adjectives of rad. Third line may be thus dissolved: fafurae fufe sifa #refufc37 H. etc, a blue lotus, is usually considered as a ft word. I think, ii comes from pretra (Potgiu ) which is a Sk. word. Various words like parez, Focate etc., noted by lexicographers, are mere back-formations from the Prakrit कंदोट्ट.
42. Construe hi are try etc. It appears that the reading, according to the Sk. छाया, was पलित्त-वच्छप्फुड-, i. e., "the श्रीवत्स mark was clearly visible on account of the shining chest etc.' वत्स or श्रीवत्स is a particular mark or curl of hair on the breast of fans or awr and of other divine beings. It is said to be white and represented in pictures by a symbol resembling a cruciform flower. To explain the form afcat, which the grammarians derive from afat by a special rule, Pischel postulates a form *चन्द्रिमन् (103). The word चन्द्रिका would. give us चंदिगा or öffel which might have been misread as afght due to orthographical confusion at a pretty early stage of Präkrit literature.
43. ut usually means the hood, but it is also used in the sense of the body of a serpent. The girdle is holding up the garment which therefore is hanging from the girdle. From the
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