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out! Oh, how people ignore a host of good qualities and are fault-finding (by oature) !
In this interpretation we are required to understrnd वृद्धि by विपरीतलक्षणा in the opposite sense of ar or 137. I would venture however to hazard a conjecture that the genuine reading was यव्यृद्धयर्थ०, व्य॒द्धि (meaning ill luck, misfortune, non-prosperity). has been corrupted into 'fe' by the scribes. 'That one fault has proved the ill luck or misfortune of the clouds', makes good sense. In a number of verses dealing with ara (and #9) we get references to the tax who is farer T', 'afsa que qua fer una maata #94', 'fararkte fikir25017964 4721a49 50 anziah i etc. Naturally the poet in the present verse refers to this one fault of the clouds 'which is not merged into the number of good qualities' in contrast to Kālidāsa's statement: get fe a I r a faqafa (Kumāra I. 3).
The use of the word atraat in the sense of 'a river is rather unusual. P 47 V. 9 As the moon and the sun are dark to a man who is bornblind, even so for a person who has violated the vow of chastity the (whole) world is (as if) beyond good and evil deed. (That is, such a person simply does not bother about the good or bad nature of anything he does). V, 10 This person (referring to Candralekhā) dreads a public scandal that invites a danger or calamity. Any other scandal she (simply) considers as 'a skyflower'-as an impossiblity - as non-existing.
å hi af 15 hafa--you excite (or inflame) me by your crooked speech or innuendoes !
afazarsfe Tw=farrzarsfe you are frustrated, foiled, beaten off. The expression corresponds to 'H' in Marathi.
P 48 V. It Out of regard for one's dear person one sets one's heart even on a disagreeable (thing or) individual. Rains, although they give rise to mud, are a source of delight to those who are desirous of a (bumper) crop. V. 12 Even those persons whose crime (The criminal deed) bears fruit are not worthy of praise by the high-souled ones. We bow down to them whose crime (? good deed) even does not bear fruit. V. 13 When compared with one-sided love in matrimony-one has to admit--even want of love conduces to happiness. A face unadorned with a
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