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Ge.
adac ca tasmai 'ma sma kuruthah kurukulapate tatra presyasya prarthanakadarthanenava jnam' iti yañcapūrvakam sarvavişäpaharaṇe ganavidyavalkaradyakarane kamaripitvakalpane'py analpalaktikam amandadaran mantratrayam.1
(He gave him, out of great respect, three mantras possessing ample powers to cure all poisons, to obtain expert knowledge in music and to assume any desired form, with the request, "Oh lord of the Kurus, do not humiliate your servant by discarding his gift.)
20. The description of the forest through which Jivandhara goes before he reaches the city of Candrabha In the Cc. this description occurs when Cutañcanan describes ths path through which Civakan has to go. In the Ge. the author describes it as the path through which Jivandhara goes.
Ce.
kalaly in pinai konritum enru kacint ilaiyin nilal avvayin inmaiyinän
nilayin nila ranatu ninru kotut
ulaiyum veyi ninr urukumm uravoy,
(Oh, wise one, since there are no shades of leaves, worrying that his sweet mate is suffering, the buck stands suffering in front of the doe (i.e., in between the sun and the doe) in the hot sun in order to cover her in his shadow.)
Ge.
...nibleṣaparnakṣayanirvišeṣāšeṣavițopini...
...kareṇutapaharanakṛte nijakayacchayapradayidantini...
([In a place where) all the trees remain without any leaves on them..the male ele. phant, to protect the she-elephant from the heat, covered her body with shadow of his body.)
21. The description of the incident in which Padma was bitten by a snake,
Cc.
21
nankai tan mukattai nakki nokai mati tuv enrenni
ankur ai aravu tinți...
(A snake who lives there [in that tree] has bitten her, msitaking her face for the shining moon.)
Gc.
kanyam imam idānim kanyagṛhan nirgatya grhodyane svakarävar jita-jalasekena sasneham abhivardhitä puspavati jäta madhavilateti mahotsavam aracayantim tadvadanagocarakašānkasankayeva bhujangamaḥ ko'pyaspraksit.5
(The lady, having gone out of her palace while she was in the garden rejoicing over the blooming of her madhavi creeper, which was watered with love by her, was bitten by a snake which mistook her face for the moon.)
1 Gc. 5 para 149, p. 224.
2 Cc. v. 1188.
3 Gc. 5
para 150, p. 227.
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4 Cc. v. 1271.
5 Gc. V para 155, pp. 234-235.
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