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Critical and Comparative Notes
ar (fr. denarius) A particular gold coin.
qarTo - "Announce through the streets of the town by the beat of drum that the person who would protect the princess from being abducted would receive the gift of five hundred dināra's."
P. 12. fuit A legal wife, a legally married wife. V. 3. When the desired object is capable of being accomplished through wealth or strength and if we fail to accomplish it our mental distress is (perfectly) understandable. But when it is impossible to achieve through either of these means what occasion is there for any lamentation ?
___ 'का नाम परिदेवना' This quarter reminds one of 'तत्र का परिदेवना' (Bhagavad-gitā II. 28. d) V 4 Even when a great calamity stares us in the face helplessness. is not justified (lit. does not stand to reason). Getting into a boat a man enters even the unfathomable waters of an ocean.
tað failed (=tað stefani) = año quietly. courageously (lit. shutting up your eyes to the external world). This is, according to Kuvalayananda Lokokti-alamlkära. Kālidāsa too uses it an Atocar Uttaramegha, v.50 V.5. There is no magic spell, no knowledge, no strength of arm whereby an impending calamity visiting an unlucky person (or rather, brought about by former sins) could be averted.
ET Apa Men blinded by a vice accomplish, for the sake of money, the desired aim or purpose even at the cost of life.
P. 13. Azf This word is not recorded in the Sanskrit dictionaries. The Praktit Dictionary (PSM) records it as an Apabhramśa word. It ocucrs in the sense of '3112A' in an Apabhramsa verse cited by Hemacandra in his Prakrit Grammar (VIII. iv. 350). Rāmacandra uses it in his other dramas (Nalavilāsa, Kaumudimitrāņanda) as well in the same sense of strani'.
अथवा व्यसनान्धमेवेदं जगत् । Or rather this world is certainly blinded by some vice or another. V. 6. Some are given to eating various kinds of delicious food; some others are addicted to women; some find pleasure in flowers and cosmetics, some are fond of singing; some are interested in gambling, hunting, drinking liquor, chewing betel (with areca-nut parings) or handling arms; still some others are intentiy engaged in (or busy with) horses, elephants, bullock-carts, houses, children, and seats.
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