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per, just or fair. Fate must not count in the life-duration or lifequantum of poor people those days which they pass divorced from dharma, artha and kāma, the three goals of human life. For during those days the poor cannot be said to be living at all. They are as good as dead. It is a living death and not life which they live during those days. Cf. मृच्छकटिक I. 10 : सुखात्त यो याति नरो दरिद्रतां धृतः शरीरेण मृतः स जीवति । The commentator notes the variant सुंदरं एवं for एरिसं जुतं ।
146) The day-lotus blooms or expands when the sun rises and shrinks, fades and closes its petals when the sun sets. The poor also stretch out their limbs when the sun rises and collect them together when the sun sets in the cold season, as they have no means such as warm clothing or fire or food or massage with oil to keep themselves warm in winter. a shrinking, contracting, sinking. expanding, blooming, rising., DNM VII. 11. See stanzas +61, 560 and 761 (R).
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147) Hāla 243.
= sportiveness, gaiety, affected grace (क्रीडितम् ). खमा समत्थस्स may also stand for (खमाsसमत्थस्स (W.1870, p. 157) forbearance behoves (comes in handy for) one who is a weakling. discourse, talk, eloquence. For the last quarter cf. विशेषतः सर्वविदां समाजे विभूषणं मौनमपण्डितानाम् । भर्तृरि, नीतिशतक 7. For
✓
see note on stanza 75.
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148 ) पडिहार = प्रतिभाति appeals to or pleases (the mind) ( रोचते). अजतरस vicarious use of the Genitive for the Ablative ( शेषे षष्ठी). af blissful, blessed, happy.
149 ) जंजर (यदि ) if नीयरया = नीचरताः = नीच वरताः devoted or addicted to meaness, baseness. The commentator's explanation of खीस्माहवं by स्तन्यकारणम् is not correct. It should be स्तन्यकार्यम् or
स्तन्यप्रभाव:.
150) हिट्ठ = हिट्ठ हिट्ठ = अधोऽधः or अधस्तात् अधस्तात्. The Samdhi of + हिट्ठ as हिठ्ठ is noteworthy. The initial ह of the second हिट्ठ becomes vocalised into (a kind of Samprasaraṇa), which is then changed into and becomes merged into the final of the first feg. The declensional termination of the Locative singular added to the indeclinable form fegg is also remarkable. Cf.
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