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is that the elephant-keepers were stoned by the people, offended by the pranks of their pranks in shaking their bumble cottages. This was enough provacation for the poor people to retaliate against the reckless behaviour of their elephants and the failure of the mabouts to control them. Though he adopts afco in the text, P. V. Kane seems to favour of a more. It is difficult to ascertain the merit area has in the context. If the cottages were altogether smashed by the elephants, there were few chances of their owners surviving the onslaught.
qafoqaxafiyaafç$19.91457e1ae19a1afegira014: (P. 206) is one of the clauses that qualify the visesya Taf: (kings) who flocked to the royalpalace to join the expedition. The compound can be dissolved as follows: पर्याणपक्षकयोः परिक्षेपार्थ पट्टिका तया बन्धः तेन निश्चलं पट्टोपधानं तेन स्थिरम् अवधानं येषां तैः 'Whose attantion was fixed because the silk-cushion (on which they sat) was motionless being secured by a girth that confined both ends of the saddle. It defies comprehension as to how stable cushions contributed to the concentration of the feudatory chiefs. It would be idle to argue that a comfortabic seat enables one to switch ones mental faculties to a particular object, simply because concenération or lack of it, is not in. tended to be highlighted h:re. We must rather read स्थान: for अवधानैः. The variant fra): vields a fac happeir sense and suits the description better. With F912: the clause would denote that the seats of the chiefs were firm because the silk-cushions they occupied, were motionless. A secured seat was essential to enable the soldeir to proceed cofidently in the vast concourse that formed the army. उच्चित्रनेत्रसुकुमारस्वस्थानस्थगितजंघाकाण्डेश्च (P. 206) is another qualifying phrase. No exception can pussibly be taken to the text of the line. The sbanks of the chiefs were covered at the proper place with fine garments that had figures prominently fashioned on them. The practice of weaving attractive designs on the clothes conti nues to this day. However, the alternative reading of 2017 Fifa. conveys a better sense and is more poetic. The garments were so fine they were not noticed on the body and yet they covered the shanks. 691016A71 galaea16te: P. 207) is as good as it can be. With the reading +2): it means that the kings bad fine waist-bands8 twisted round their flanks. Waist-band was an essential piece of dress of a soldier, that has yielded place to the modern belt. But that is an item which hardly merits serious attention, Waist-band is not something peculiar to a soldier on march. It is probably with this view that some Mss. read TES: in its place. Excellent weapons were fastened on the sides
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