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lovely person (even) to a man blind by birth, or a man who is foulmouthed or scurrilous, (दुर्मुख -or a man who is hideous or ugly), or a man whose whole body (that is, who) is worn out with age, or a villager, or a man of low origin or a man who suffers from leprosy (in which blood and pus trickle). What man indeed can love a prostitute - this knife - this scythewho cuts down the divine wish-yielding creeper in the form of the power of discrimination ?
Rāmacandra - Budhendra comments on this verse as follows :
पण्यङ्गनागहणं कुर्वन्निगमयति जात्यन्धायेति । जात्यन्धाय जन्मप्रभृत्यवसन्नदृशे पुरुषाय च दुष्कुलाय च दुर्मुखाय मुखराय । बहुगद्य भाषणदूषितवदनायेत्यर्थः । 'दुर्मुखे मुखराबद्धमुखौ' इत्यमरः। यद्वा दुष्टं व्याध्यादिना जुगुप्सितं दुर्गन्धयुक्त वा मुखं यस्य तस्मै । जरया विस्रसया जीर्णानि शिथिलानि कृशानि विश्लथसंबन्धानि च अखिलाङ्गानि करचरणाद्यशेषावयवा यस्य तस्मै च । ग्रामीणाय ग्रामान्तरादागताय अज्ञातकुलगोत्राय पान्थाय चेत्यर्थः । किंबहुना गलत्स्र समानं कुष्ठं कुष्ठजनितपूयरक्तादि तेनाभिभूताय गर्हिताय च । लक्ष्मीलवश्रद्धया संपल्लेशप्राप्त्याशया मनोहरम् अतिसुन्दरं निजवपुः स्वशरीरं यच्छन्तीषु अपंयन्तीषु । चुम्बना लेषणदन्तनखवणादिसंभोगार्थ तदधीनं कुर्वतीवित्यर्थः। ..... तथा विवेकः कर्तव्याकर्तव्यविचारः । स एव कल्पलतिका तस्याः शस्त्रीषु छरिकासु । विवेकच्छेदकरीवित्यर्थः। विवेकस्याप्यखिलार्थसंघटकत्वात् कल्पलतिकारूपणमवगन्तव्यम् । 'स्याच्छस्त्री चासिपुत्री च छुरिका चासिधेनुका' इत्यमरः। . . . पण्यत्रीषु वेश्याङ्गनासु कः पुमान् । विवेकरहितोऽपीत्यर्थः । रज्येत अनुरक्तो भवेत् । न कोऽपीत्यर्थः । 'वारस्त्री गणिका वेश्या सुलावण्याङ्गनापि च' इति वैजयन्ती । शार्दूलविक्रीडितम् ।
V. 20 What is reprehensible for the world is in the case of courtezans praiseworthy like a religious duty. What other virtue is to be expected of them ?
V. 21 Whether a stranger could do a particular job (kāryam - work, business, duty), whether it would rain, and whether a courtezan could be won over - in regard to these three things even god Brahman would be unable to decide (correctly).
V. 22 It is not possible for a spirited man, who has lost his wealth, to live in his community. This is precisely why the sun with his orb discarded (or condemned, or driven away or thrown off) to the setting moun. tain leaves the sky.
HIGO3° At present no such bird is found to exist in India. Whether it once did exist in India or whether it is an imaginary or mythological bird, it is difficult to say. This is frequently mentioned in the Jain Sūtras. It is also mentioned in the Vasudevahindi and the Pancatantra. It occurs as a standard of comparison in point of extreme carefulness or 'watchful. 12
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