Book Title: Mruccha Katikam
Author(s): Sudraka, Prithvidhara, Hiranand Mulraja Sarma, Kashinath Pandurang Parab
Publisher: Tukaram Javaji
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- [ आर्जवं ] - ( ऋजो भवः- :-)-straightforwardness, humility, simplicity. Cf. Uttara. C. IV. p. 156.
P. 284. L. 18-19 (Verse 49). Who forced his way into your mansion and bore off the entrusted ornaments, the committer of that heinous sin now seeks thy refuge.
P. 284. L. 23-24 (Verse 50). The noble Aryaka paying regard to birth and virtue victimized the ignoble Pâlaka in the sacrificial ground.
P. 285. L. 3-4 (Verse 51). Who mounted your car, sought your protection and made off-he has killed king Pâlaka, like a victim at the sacrifice which was being duly performed.
P. 285. L. 9. [at] The tributary of the Krishnâ.
P. 285. L. 10. [f] Transferred.-Cf. (Mudrâ. 2.)-- [a] The capital of Dakshina-Kos'ala and situated in the defiles of the Vindhyâ, probably the same as Râmanagara in Bundelkhanda.
P. 285. L. 21-22 (Verse 52). I am bound and dragged from a distance like a restive ass and a rabid dog. measure.
P. 286. L. 10-11 (Verse 53). Drag him off and cast him to the dogs or hoist him on the stake or saw him asunder.
P. 287. L. 17-18-21 (Verse 54). An humbled foe lying prostrate at the feet should not be put to any weapon. Let mercy be his punishment. उपगीतिवृत्तम्. Cf. -
" बद्धांजलिपुटं दीनं याचन्तं शरणागतं
न हन्यादानृशंस्यार्थमपि शत्रुं परंतुप ॥
Vâlmikiya Rama. Yuddha kânda XVIII. canto.
P. 288. L. 5. [gar amalgqtie agen &c.] We cull the following from Wilson's note appended to this speech. The ancient commentary, the MS. of which consulted was dated above two centuries ago, cites a verse stating that from this speech to that of S'arvilaka "you are fortunate in your friends" the whole is an interpolation, the work of Nilakantha who considered that the author had not brought his characters together at the close with.. sufficient reason and therefore devised the next scene. The cause. assigned for the original defect seems rather an unaccountable one. "Through fear of sunrise; but the phrase is a proverbial
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