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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
92. When cowards can't secure a firm footing in their own homes, the hero,
embodying all prowess has conquered the whole world encircled by the seven seas.
93. None indeed is completely free from defects and none completely devoid of
merits. There is poison even in the ocean of milk and there are jewels in the hoods of snakes.
94. The king whom she wants to watch walks past her if she stands at the place
but if she means to run alongside owing to the plump breasts and hips, she stumbles!
95. You are fascinated only by the reports of his merits, beauty and qualities. Actually
you have not seen him. You are bluffing that you have. Had you really met' him, all your limbs would have betrayed you!
96. Noticing how the first rain-clouds of the season aggravated the young woman's
illness — her breath almost rattled in her throat -, her mother-in-law gave up every other thing and started taking care of the young woman-her daughter-in-law, as if she was the only medicine to save the life of her son who was out on a journey.'
97. For translation vide SP S. No. (1334.287) supra.
98. Young girl, because your lover has come home after a long time, don't treat
him to jealous anger - otherwise, he who was lost in the fire of separation will be lost again in that manner!
99. The wind from the Malaya mountain that makes even the sandal- creepers coiled
up by bhujangas [(i) serpents (ii) lovers) tremble, how can that wind not make viyoginis - women separated from their men — tremble (restless) ?
(Note: The sandal-trees are here called 'sandal-creepers' so as to make them agree in gender with the viyoginis.)
9. Cf. ŚPS. No. (1323.285) supra.
