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[BRIEF NOTES
63.1: This also is the description of the spring and its lovely cool breezes. 64: "That is Apavāha when it is made with the first three and the last
three long letters, with all the intervening Caturmātras containing short letters.' The intervening Caturmātras are five so that the short letters are twenty. (ma-na-na-na-na-na-na--sa-ga-ga); see H. 2.377; P.
7.32; Kd. 4.102. 64.1: This is a description of a peak of the Malaya mountain in the
spring season.
65: 'Eight long letters, ten short ones, a Pañcamātra with its short letter
in the middle, a Caturmātra and a Trimātra, both having their long letter at the end, (coming in succession) make a Bhujangavijțmbhita.'
(ma-ma-ta-na-na-na-ra-sa-la-ga); cf. H. 2.376; P. 7.31; Kd. 4.101. 65.1: Again we have a description of the spring with all its glory and
how it affects the lovers in separation.
66: 'In Pipidik, there are four more short letters in the middle, than
those in the Bhujangavijạmbhita); in Karabha there are nine more; in Panava fourteen more and in Mālāvștta five more than the last.' Thus we have 14 short letters at the centre in the Pipidikā, 19 in Karabha, 24 in Panava and 29 in the Mālāvștta. Otherwise the metres are identical with the Bhujangavijțmbhita. See H. 2.385; the metres
are not mentioned by any one else. 66.1 and 4: Both the illustrations contain the description of the approach
ing winter (Hemanta) and a consequent request by the beloved to her lover to postpone his journey to distant countries.
66.2: Svayambhu's illustration is defective as regards the number of
short letters occurring in a Pāda; in the first we have 23 in place of 19 and this has led the author of the footnote on p. 28 to remark asyām i.e., pipīdikāyām, nava-laghu-vrddhu, thus making the number of short letters in Karabha 10 + 4 + 9 = 23. But as a matter of fact we have only 19 short letters in the 3rd and the 4th lines while in the 2nd line there are only 16 instead of the required 19. Perhaps read thanajuam in the first line and removing the word kadhina from it, put it before kanira in the second.
66.3: In the second line the letter la from saalabhuana-ala is dropped in
the ms. So also the letter ha in kahalaala in the third line has to be restored; the footnote on kalaala which explains the word as kațāha shows that the mistake is of the scribe of our ms. The stanza is a
