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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
120. This gātha is cited to illustrate Prsta-praśnam, one of the six kinds of
praśnottaram. Bhoja in his SK (p. 304) explains it thus :
अत्र य एव प्रश्ना: 'क: स योजनपाद: 'क: स यो दण्डानां द्वे सहस्रे इत्यादय: त एव 'क्रोशो योजनपाद:' 'कोदण्डानां द्वे सहने' इत्यादीन्युत्तराणि भवन्ति । एवं 'का काली का मधुरा किं शुकपृथुकाननच्छायम्' इत्युत्तरं किमभिहितशेषस्य प्रष्टव्यमिति पृष्टप्रश्नम् ।
121. Bhoja cites this gāthā to illustrate '3fACH, one of the six kinds of Gūdha.
After citing the gatha he comments on it thus : “अत्र निरीक्षितमनेनात्र पुरुषायितलक्ष्म पादलाक्षादिकं, तेन नियुक्ते मां नृ-कर्मणीत्यभिप्रायेण वध्वाः शयनावलोकनमित्यभिप्रायगूढम् । - सरस्वती, 9. 302.
There is a section devoted to हियाली in Vajjalagga. हियाली is equated with हृदयवती (TRT), a stanza which has a heart i.e., a hidden meaning underlying the apparent expressed sense. It puzzles the reader in the matter of finding out the hidden meaning. Purch therefore means a riddle. It corresponds to Sanskrit welch. The riddle is thus explained : The brother-in-law discovers saffron-coloured foot-marks on the bed-sheet of his sister-in-law and learns of her faucia-ra (on the previous night) from those foot-marks. He asks her to take the sword and report on duty at the king's palace in place of her husband. She is convinced that he has discovered her secret and casts a perplexed glance at the bed-sheet marked with her foot-marks. The sword is a symbol of manliness.
122. Bhoja, following Rudrata, cites this stanza as an example of 799 (= pead and
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123. Bhoja cites this gathā as an example of Vesa, one of the varieties of Jāti (Natural
Description). After citing it he comments on it thus : 377 atata amatan HUT वेषो जनमन:प्रमोदाय जायत इति वेषो नामायं जातिभेद : I - सरस्वती, पृ. ३१४.
GS (W) reads "Khaņa' for 'Chana', and 'Kaņņa gaa' - (or - 'kaa' v. 1.) for *Kassa kae'. It deserves our notice that Bhoja quotes this very găthā further on (p. 664) with the introductory remark: Haldarfari ya IT - "There it reads in the second half of the gāthā $002631", which agrees with the reading in GS (W). For the festival ya tica, read Bhojas Smgăraprakāśa, pp. 650-651.
124. The subjects of Jāti, (Natural Description) may be an innocent young woman,
a child, lower animals and persons of inferior rank. Here Bhoja cites an example
