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13. 10-11 Mark the accusative plural form ending in g in, etc. 13. 19 You and your king are the dust of my feet."
14. 5 पच्चा र इ-see glossary. It may be equivalent to Hindi पछाडना to hurl
15. 13 The four Aradhanas are-दर्शन, ज्ञान, चरण and तपस्.
VII.
1. 14. This line seems to be interpolated. It repeats the sense of line 10 except for the simile.
1. 16.
etc.- The horses that had entertained a desire to eat the kusa grass, were tied up like bad pupils who prefer bad teachings.'
1. 17-18. Dūna appears good being ever undertaken by elephants which are controlled by the iron-hook and which put themselves in chains, even as by hands that serve as a check to the wicked, but put a restraint upon themselves.'
2. 4. Who did not know that wretched Sun-plant (Calotropis Gigentea). esteemed by the goats, the paralytic, the cheat and the treatises (i. e. on medicine),
Two varieties of this plant are recognised in ancient works, i e. the white and the red, both of which are recommended as a treat for paralysis etc. अर्कद्वयं सरं वातकुष्ठकण्डूविषव्रणान् ।
निहन्ति लीहगुल्मार्शः श्लेष्मोदरशकृत्कृमीन् ॥
BNR p. 380.
'The drug is employed to cure all kinds of fits, epilepsy, hysteria, lockjaw, convulsions in children, paralytic complaint, cold sweats, poisonous bites and venereal complaints.' (MDI p. 12. ).
Goats are known to relish its leaves and the cheats use it as it acts as a poison in large doses.
2. 5. Elephants are said to be particularly fond of Sallaki (Boswelia Therifera ) as some of its Sanskrit names गजभक्ष्या- गजप्रिया suggest. cf.
शल्लकी गजभक्ष्या च सुवहा सुरभी रसा ।
मरुणा कुन्दुरुकी वल्लकी च बहुस्रवा || BNR. p. 306.
2. 6. -Mustard tree of scripture (Salvadara Parsica) is dear to camels, hence it is also called करभवल्लभ.
2. 8. णग्गोह - (१) न्यग्रोध ( २ ) नग्नौघः see ante p. 880. (पक्षे पापिन्याः स्त्रियः मुनिसमूहः रोचते, टि. )
2.9.
-A certain load-bull esteemed soft grass.
3. 6. पत्तवत्त- प्राप्तवृत्ताः (श्रुतवृत्तान्ताः ) ते धरवत् धरणवित् च धीराः तेषां । for वर in the sense of a see also II, 7, 8; IV, 1, 15. See also the variant.
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