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that his arrows nowadays are made of flowers of poisonous trees. In this text we come across forms like भगाइ, कुणाइ etc. Elsewhere we get fe also. Either they are formed on the analogy of fЯ or contaminated with the forms of the ninth class (Pischel § 514). Here the figure of speech is 3 arising out of
विरोध.
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23. She is her own mistress; but as is tormenting her now, she has become helpless; so should come to her rescuse at this moment: that is her line of argument. Note the form fi Acc. sg. of (Pischel § 415).
24. is compared with the Black mount; there is saffron on his chest just as there is mineral colour on the mountain: face proposes that she would rub it off with her breasts by closely embracing him. लुह is given as an आदेश for मृज्. Can we not connect it with, to make dry?
25. वाहरइ म्ह - Note the use of the particle स्म to give the sense of the past. So far as I know, it is unprecedented in Prakrit. our says that it is for him to make advances, and he did intend to that effect. He mildly complains, with a bit of taunt to her audacity as well, that she has really anticipated him by speaking as above. How it is for him to court first is made clear by an illustration in the next verse. He does intend to court her, but due to the important mission on hand he is forced to adjourn his love affairs. तइत्वया.
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26. What is true of the goose should have also been true in his case but for the urgent and pressing duty on hand to which he has to attend. The form f is found in some Mss. of the dramas, दु but it is considered as a wrong reading for fag. (Pischel § 185).
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