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14. 12, of sort fart As Arjuna ( Nara) was taken to the residence of Droņa ( for education )'.
14, 13. 904 ja 1-A devotee of the Jina Puspadanta (the 9th Tirthamkara ).
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1.1. &itaff@ J-The eighteen scripts are mentioned in the Samaväyānga and the Pannavanā Sutra of the Jaina canon. The two lists vary but several names are common, among which are the three well-known scripts of India, Brāhmi, Kharoştri and Drūvidi. The other two ' Javanālīya' and 'Pukkharasādi' also appear to be historical, though, these as well as the others, remain yet to be identified. (See Buhler's Origin of Brahmi alphabet).
Most of the arts and sciences mentioned in this Kadavaka are included in the sixty-four arts of Ancient India enumerated by Vātsāyana in his Kāmasutra. (See Dr. P. K. Acharya's 'Fine Arts' I. H. Q. V, 188 ff. Also compare similar passages in Jasa. I, 24 and Bhavis. II, 2.
2. 11. 318ITE-3771TFT Ilē, MS. B also suggests aiming and the gloss explains it as a siit: W garn youtifa.
2. 16. Separate तिक्ख so as to make it an adj. of मणुय like कायर. तिक्ख . F: Patent: 91 1 f.
ya 3. 1-2, 2017 is paraphrased in the gloss as HİETTI, qoften as HIEVENT tid ajami as 71. According to this the couplet may be translated as follows:
'Whoever, being greedy, puts wealth in his treasury, adds fuel to the fire and gives charge of a piece of flesh to a cat, Oh blessed one.'
3. 3. 'Maintenance of wicked servants means honouring calamity (or, is a mine of calamities, fai 316T: STIFT: 91 ); Vašiştha fell in great trouble (i.e., by such mistake )'. The reference, probably, is to Vasistha's great hospitality to Viśvāmitra and the trouble that followed from the latter's ungrateful attempt to snatch away the sage's cow. (See Rimāyana Balakanda, chapt. 51-56). The gloss, however, explains विहुरायरु as सदुःखस्य आदरः कृतः. This does not seem to fit in with the context.
8. 16. म य रद्ध य व सण ई-The vices associated with Cupid. Or मयरद्धय may be read separate as Vocative (meaning, Oh Nāgakumāra ).
4. 8-15. Compare the description of limbs here with the following from Varāhamihira's Bphat-Samhitā, chapt. 67, verses 85-88.
नाभी स्वरः सत्त्वमिति प्रशस्तं गम्भीरमेतत् त्रितयं नराणाम् । उरो ललाटं वदनं च पुंसां विस्तीर्णमेतत् त्रितयं प्रशस्तम् ॥ ८५ ॥
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