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Pāli, Dhanya and Cărukesi
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'Oh Keśava, why have you become emaciated ? O fool, why did you not store food-grains? How can one get mental satisfaction, feeding himself (just) on whatever he obtains ? (or, on what is highly poisonous ?)'. Alternatively, 'O fool, why did you not stick to Dhanyā ? Is it ever possible for one enjoying himself in the company of Visakhā to get real satisfaction ?' Pk. dhanna (Sk. dhanyā) is understood by Patwardhan as beautiful women'. But like Višākha, Dhanyā here is the personal name of a particular gopi who once enjoyed Krsna's favour. This interpretation finds support from two verses cited in the Srågāraprakāśa.
2. The following verse is cited twice in the śrngāraprakāśa. Once it is cited as an illustration of Samākhyābhidhaniki Vyapekṣā wherein the signification of a designation is brought out by means of a sentence. At another place it is cited as an illustration of a designation that is construed meaningfully to convey the relationship of love :
सच्चं धण्णा धण्णा, जा तइया केसवेण गिरि-धरणे । गुरु-भार-वावडेण वि, उज्जुअ-अच्छं चिरं दिट्ठा ॥
Sủngāraprakāśa, pp. 269, 888
'Dhanyā is indeed dhanyā (blessed), who was looked at directly and lingeringly by Keśava, even when he was weighed down with a heavy load due to holding the mountain (i. e. Govardhana) aloft'.
3. The following verse is cited by Bhoja as an illustration of the type of Nayaka who is Dhiralalita, Sādhāraṇa and Madhyama.
दूरे गोकुलनाथ गोकुलमितस्संचार-शून्या दिशस्त्यक्त्वा मां धनिकादयो पि हि गता भारातिखेदालसाः । विस्तीर्णा वनराजिकेयमपरा जाता पुरो निर्गमात । खिन्नाऽस्मि प्रतिपालयेत्यभिहितो गोप्या हरिः पातु वः ॥
(ŠP., p. 611)
"Oh Lord of Gokula, Gokula is far away from here. Dhanikā and other (companions), feeling exhausted and languid under their load have gone away already, leaving me alone. This vast woodland has become strange to me (as it were), before I can get out of it (?) and I am (extremely) tired. Please protect me. May Hari, addressed thus by the Gopi, protect you'.
Here Dhanikā is the name of one of the gopis. It is quite close to Dhaņņā (Sk. Dhanya) of the Vajjālagga verse. Cīrukesi
As an illustration of the Dhiroddhatāsādhāraņa-dhộsta type of hero, Bhoja has cited in ŚP. the following verse.
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