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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
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663. Bhoja cites this gāthā to illustrate the variety, called 31PHERIA.
664. Bhoja cites this gāthā to illustrate the variety, called E. Dr. A. M. Ghatage
writes to say : सोज्झअ = शोधक (washerman); सुआ - his daughter. तित्थावासो जणो सव्वो कओ. सोज्झअ अ सुआए कओ तित्थावासो जणो सव्वो ।
“The washerman's daughter made all men have a (permanent) residence at the river-ford. She kept them gazing at her for a long time."
665. Bhoja cites this gāthā to illustrate the variety, called 31-4R. Hq (Mar. Rai,
Hindi H5341). The Sanskrit commentary (NS edn., p. 345) says : 951-91ralfag 1 सुरभितस्य मरुवकस्य सौरभनिमित्ताय पुष्पं यथा नाधिककामनीयं तथा सहजसौन्दर्यसौष्ठवादिगुणगणालंकृतस्य Ta Pa at JucYTETRufa ura: ---- There is yet another explanation : The situation according to DR is as follows: The female friend (sakhi) of the nāyikā asks her-"Why did you not have a baby all these days ? And what are the dealings of your husband ?”. The nāyikā felt embarrased and did not give any reply. The sakhi thereupon says : "Do not feel embarrassed, if you have not borne a child so far, due to your (or your husband's) craze for practising viparīta-rata (contrary intercourse). That does not matter. Even in the absence of a baby, you are experiencing the rapture of viparīta-rata with your husband, that is after all not à small thing." - quoted by M. V. Patwardhan.
666. The text of this gāthā is restored by Dr. H. C. Bhayani : vide his Muktaka
Madhuri (in Gujarati, original Sanskrit Prakrit Readings p. 143, v. 134). Read also his rendering in Gujarati Rdet (p. 73). Bhoja cites this gāthā to illustrate the variety, called 9.
667. Bhoja cites this gāthā to illustrate the variety, called 3T169T. 371hr Siche (p. 10,
v. 28) cites this gathā as an example of the figure 31 rau.fanpir (pp. 38-39)
disagrees, looks upon it as the figure 3441. 669. This gātha is already dealt with; vide ŚP S. No. (155.73) supra. Bhoja cites
it here to illustrate the variety, called 34. SK (pp. 400-401, v. 2) cites it as an example of one of the varieties of उपमा, called अन्तर्भूतसामान्या नाम समासोपमासु 4914Hrafn: Further on (p. 616) it again cites this gāthā with the introductory words (37Thiag) 3101 -
