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Critical and Comparative Notes PARTI" sfa dat:" | (P. 378). YF° YATI: qai Y545TH I YF95pkia 977: Y95FTTTT: 1 The yuvati requests Makaranda to kill ber by cutting off her neck with the sword. or knife He replies 'I shall closely embrace you by putting the noose of my arms round your neek.” V. 18 There is no firm resolve on my part about removing or overcoming dangers or calamities (of others) and making money But my mind ever serves as a mirror for the reflection of others' unhappiness (or agony) or troubles.
वैशसम्-विशसति हिनस्तीति विशसो घातुकः । पचाद्यच् । विशसस्य कर्म वैशसम् । युवाfacalcogli3: 1 Destruction, slaughter, butchery, murder. After Kalidasa (Kumāra. IV. 31) and Bhavabhūti (Uttararāma. IV. 24, VI. 40) Rāmacandra uses this rather obscure or rarely used word.
P8. V. 19 If an unfamiliar person desires to know another's closelyguarded secret, if an impotent (or weak) person gets angry, and if a person hankers after a woman who is free from worldly attachment-whom does he not cause to laugh ? He causes laughter to one and all - he becomes a laughing-stock. V. 20 If on account of want of capacity the desired objects are not secured, what cause is there for getting angry ? (Nature) has not laid mill in a bull. What place is there for disgust in regard to (Nature's) scheme or design ?
The meaning of the second half of this gātha is rather obscure. The translation follows the Sanskrit Chāyā. Dr H, C. Bhayani would like to read the second half as :
वसहेसु दुद्धमहियं न एसु को नाम निव्वेओ ॥
(TÀg ga-fed a, gg at ara fa fa 11" With this emendation the second half may be translated as :
"We do not get milk and buttermilk from bulls. What cause is there for disgust ?
quila To the very mighty (heroes), who have staked their precious lives, what indeed is unattainable (lit. attainable or unattainable) ? This sentence distantly reminds one of FEITT....farfor a 150gft: alfag -- Kirāta I. 19
V. 21 Persons who (were first poor and) afterwards attain to prosperity easily disclose their former poverty - distressed circumstances. But persons
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