Book Title: Mruccha Katikam
Author(s): Sudraka, Prithvidhara, Hiranand Mulraja Sarma, Kashinath Pandurang Parab
Publisher: Tukaram Javaji
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the Kshatriyas and the Vais'yas. You are a courtesan and so like a tank, a creeper, and a boat welcome [i. e. succumb to all alike. --[arrafa]=whyfat-bends down. FThai THANH Tfa-fore a: Pon , ततश्च यत्वे कृते नाम्यतीति रूपसिद्धिः अथवा गुणमकृत्वा नामं करोतीत्यर्थे यणादेशे alfafa. Metre ne cfarisan, Rhetorical figure---arek HÔTETमालोपमा.
P. 26. L. 10. For you pe cf. 'TUCATÉ 7 value*'—Das'akumâracharita p. 57. The love of Vasantasenâ may be compared with that of Rûpaņikâ of the Kathâsaritsagara and of Râgamañjari of the Das'akumâracharita.
P. 26. L. 10-11. T ar:-Brutal violence.
P. 26. L. 12. There at 1-Slave by birth; a term of reproach and abuse.
P. 26. L. 14-15. a T RATTO-May not slip through our fingers. P. 26. L. 17. [zai tata inreg.] Pearls string with pearls.
P. 27. L. 2. [PTUTC HIST:.] The son of an unmarried woman; a term of reproach occurring usually in the Vocative. foretan unchaste or faithless woman.
P. 27. L. 4. [3FHÈ.] Interjection of surprise. P. 27. L. 7. ATTRIBET-AT-TTi -Heap of black beans.
P. 27. L. 10-11 (Verse 33). My keen sighted eye though opened is, as it were, closed by darkness being obstructed by the entrance of gloom. [=1721960] 3100 RIN QENIT heat. [farosat)= zarar covered (pp. of the root fence with a). Metre Brut, Rhetorical figure refericiter.
P. 27. L. 13-14 (Verse 34). Darkness, as it were, anoints the limbs, the heavens as it were, rain collyrium. Like the service l'endered to the wicked, my sight is of no avail now. The verse is cited by Mammața first as an example of side and then of Samsrshti. He says:-34fcaturaleza festudiaro gerar attachant 4*ICAR Tara: TTTT eat Thica. In the Kâvyâdars'a II. 362, it serves as an illustration of Samakakshatâsanikirņa (a stanza, where more than one alankâra occur ) and is discussed at some length. Dr. Pischel, thinking that this stanza is from the pen of the author of the Kâvyâd. ascribes the authorship of our drama to Daņdin. It is quoted in the Sarasvatîkaņthâbharaṇa and many other works and is, I think, one of the Subhâshitas. Metre BEET, Rhe. Fig. JUHICHT.
