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of the queen. The prominent sentiment in this verse is saffa FHMIT( seperation in love due to jealously ) which though not directly seen in the verse, is clearly brought to the fore-front by the figures 3941 and These figures, therefore, are favourable to this TA.
But in the following verse 'alaiertagi' etc. the figure of speech ill agrees with the dominant . The verse means:-" The whole world has been completely brought to ruin by the serpents with their inhalings on account of their subsisting upon wind ( because they have taken the vow of taking nothing but wind as their food ); these serpents, in their turn, are devoured by the peacocks who have taken the austere vow of drinking only the drops of rain. These peacocks, again, are killed by the hunters who clad themselves with the rough skin of 975 deer ( who wear the sacred deer skin). This cunning world desires to see merits ( in men ) although it knows perfectly well the workings of hypocrisy.
Here the poet seems to be disgusted with the ways of the world in that it is full of men who outwardly show themselves to be very pious (observing all sorts of religious vows ) but in reality are always bent upon ruining others. The predominant feeling in this verse, therefore, is faare (disgust). And the figure efanyifati is employed as a handmaid to that feeling. But the types of hypocrites-- the serpent, the peacock and the hunter,-ought to have been given in ascending order of the austerity of the vow. That is to say, ararer is the most difficult of all the three vows, that, therefore, ought to have been put last. But instead, it has been put first. Thus in the verse, the atmosphere
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