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brave is compared with Sita, sitting beneath a tree. The original meaning on the tree' should be set aside and the secondary meaning * beneath the tree should be accepted on the ground of S T. arrast: - the superhuman power of the brave resembling GEÄ. sfifia sît: 1 aizrot sít: atteit: 1 Trenta - wellknown. w agtiata" qe - beneath a wellknown tree grown in the garden of the city of the ten-faced one [i. e. Rāvana 1. T quagef1f gaisa agalla यस्य सः दशमुखः। रावणः इत्यर्थः । तस्य पुरं लङ्कानाम्नी राजधानी । तस्य JUTAT 3947 art: 3 akaagaa According to the Jain scriptures Rāvana did not possess ten faces. He had secured knowledge of changing his face into ten in number. Maithili is described as sitting under a tree in the Puranas, when Hanuman, the Son of Pavana had gone to Lanka to see her. 999aai - the son of the king called Pavana. According to the Jain scriptures, Hanuman was not born of the wind, but of the King Pavananjaya. 39€ - with her face raised. उद्गतं ऊर्ध्वदिशि वलितं मुखं यस्याः सा उन्मुखी I the feminine termination Fi is affixed to the word JFHE to change it into a feminine form under the rule '59151a15916. gasījos: - skilled in fighting. yo siyos: gaza: yasitos: 1 This g laeget compound is formed under the rule ' ईप् शोण्डादिभिः'. अभणीत् - This is an Aorist form derived from the root 41. Sambara means to say that, as the goddess of the brave is looking expectantly at the Sage like Maithili looking at Hanumat, the Sage should not disappoint her by refusing to take ap
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Stanza 18 - JEALTÀ Uçe - in a battle that will be offered by you and me. अस्मदीये - in that of ours. अस्माकमिदमस्मga i ago - in a battle. The verb 74, when preceded by the preposition सम् , means to kill'. सञ्चक्षतेऽस्मिन्सङ्ख्य म् । 'युद्धमायोधन जन्यं प्रधनं प्रविदारणं । मृधमास्कन्दनं सङ्ख्यं समीकं साम्परायिकम्' इत्यमरः । सुभटविषयां सङ्ख्यां पूरयन् - completing the number of best warriors.
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