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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
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But sometimes such a sorrow visits a person that death alone becomes a welcome remedy." After citing it, he remarks : अत्र सातिशयदुःखरूपतया सर्वदा निश्चितस्य मरणस्य दुःखान्तरोत्पत्तिसमये दु:खमात्रतयावगम इति परभागस्य दोषात्मकादपि मरणस्यौषधरूपतया गुण इति व्यत्यास: परिपोषकृत् ।
167. "May that hand of Kumāra (Kartikeya) which, while he sucks the breast of
Parvati gropes around for the other breast on the male side in the Ardhanārīśvara form), protect you." After citing this gātha in this prolonged discussion of the figure Sankara, Sobhākara remarks : अत्र स्तनद्रयस्य साहचर्येणोपनिबद्धस्यैकदर्शनात् स्तनान्तरं संस्कारप्रबोधने न तदस्तीत्यनवगमाद् भ्रान्तिमान् करभ्रमणरूपस्य प्रयत्नस्य मोघतया विगतफलत्वमिति विचित्रस्योपस्कारकः | - पृ. २०५.
8. "Govinda (= Visnu) (in his fifth incarnation as Vāmana) humabled (lit. bound) the demon Bali through trickery and grew bigger and bigger so much (with
de) that the whole of the world could not hold him, isn't it then remarkable that my dear girl who has bound three valis (three folds on her belly) goes about modestly with her head bent downwards ?" .' Sobhākara in his gloss on this gathā shows how there are the figures Vyatireka, Višeşokti and Aprastuta-prasaṁsā and of these, Aprastuta-prašamsă is the principal and the two others subordinate and that they develop the figure Sankara.
Note : Chapter XIX dealing with Prakrit Verses in Rasagangădhara is skipped
over, as it gives verses which have already been explained earlier and the solitary prose passage hardly needs any explanation.
