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Prakrit Verses in Sanskrit Works on Poetics
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The fervour of the heavenly damsels did not weaken as they frequented the regions of the huge sapphire rocks resonant with the noise of the water - falls cascading down the lofty slopes.
18. (This passage is cited from Bhavabhūti's play called Málati - Madhava and forms
part of a long description of a vicious tiger, who is about to attack Madayantikā, the sweetheart of Makaranda, an intimate friend of Mādhva.)
This vicious tiger is playing the part of the angry god of death : He has put to flight the whole lot of people by his loud and deep growl that comes from his throat - a deep cavern indeed filled with the flesh of men and beasts mangled by first felling the victim by a powerful slap of his paw that is fierce like a thunderbolt - the path on which he walks is all full of blood of the animals he
has overpowered and mauled. 19. For translation vide DHV S.No.(52.16) supra
20. The young bride with plump breasts, amiable in disposition, dark in complexion
and slender in shape, slow in gait, who sees with her bud-like eyes, prevails over her husband (and keeps out other women).
21. For translation vide DHV S.No.(11.8) súpra
22. O brother-in-law, don't you see the series of crescent moons (i.e.crescent moon
like nail-marks) on the breasts of your wife ? Why are you in vain looking at the sky (in which there is a single crescent moon)?
23. How can I meet my lover, dear friend ? Not even in the night it seems possible.
Then the moon will be looking on - that out-caste with the kikkhiri (the symbolic stick carried by the out-caste in his hand for avoiding his touch / contact) of his multitude of rays?
24. Why are you panting, heaving your breasts which are the goblets of your rivals'
jealousy and anger, the globes of loveliness, temples of the elephants in the form of Madana, and the temptations that hunt the minds of men ?
25. Räma somehow passed the rainy season that was (as it were) a night-fall to
the sun of his endeavour, a strong chain restraining the mighty elephant of his anger; and a cage imprisoning the lion of his victory (in the coming war against
