Book Title: Mruccha Katikam
Author(s): Sudraka, Prithvidhara, Hiranand Mulraja Sarma, Kashinath Pandurang Parab
Publisher: Tukaram Javaji
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P. 52. L. 4. श्रेष्ठिन् m. ( श्रेष्ठं धनादिकमस्यास्ति इनि.) Head or president of a corporation or guild.[(F) A place where many roads meet.—'चत्वरं स्यात् पथां श्लेषे' - हैमः. Cf. चौक - श्रेष्ठिचत्वरे - वणिग्वीथ्यां -in the street of seths.
P. 52. L. 10. [a.] To penetrate or examine her heart.
P. 52. L. 12. [f] Courtesans, fond of the opulent as they are, are censured as loving money and not the man who possesses it. I love a penniless man. So none will blame me as hankering
after lucre.
P. 53. L. 1. [.] Honey-makers, but not those who enjoy
or taste it.
P. 53. L. 10. [.] A golden coin equal to sixteen Mashas or about 175 grains Troy. Also a weight equal to one Karsha of gold.
P. 53. L. 12. [.] Stage-curtain. Mâthura is the keeper of the gaming-house. Dyûtakara and Samvâhaka are two gamblers. The latter lost ten Suvarnas and ran off without paying them. Consequently Mathura called upon Dyûtakara to catch him. Samvâhaka speaks Mâgadht marked by abundance of r and the remaining two, Dhakka dialect, characterised by the predominence of a. Samvâhaka was confused and overwhelmed. He is represented as entering without the curtain being put aside as if breaking through it expressing hurry and fright. Cf. Bharata.-qtrì a कर्तव्य आर्त्तराज प्रवेशने. '
P. 53. L. 13. [.] Out on this gambling propensity.
P. 53. L. 14-15 P. 54. L. 1-2 (Verse 1). Alas! I am kicked by the die as if by a newly let-loose she-ass. I am transfixed by Sakti (cowrie) as Ghatotkacha was pierced by a mace hurled down by Karna. f-she-ass, -pike, also technicalities for gambling implements.-[.] Name of a son of Bhimasena by a female demon Hiṛimbâ. He was a very powerful person; fought valiantly in the great war of Mahâbhârata on the side of the Pândavas but was slain by Angarâja-Karna, with the S'akt? or missile he had received from Indra. This mace was fated to kill one individual. Karna kept it to destroy Arjuna but when Ghatotkacha proved formidable to the host of the Kurus and threatened their destruction, hurled it against him. See Mahâbharata Drona P. Ch. 179-90. Cf. Mudrârâkshasa II. 15. Metre. चित्रजातिः R. F. उपमा.
