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569) ET = ATTla: association. Qari = QETE (OSATZE*). the final vowel of the first member being shortened nelii (cusa" according to HŚ. VIII.1.4.
570) BT2175 = Ef941. The DNM, VIII.18, records the word.! Faton in the sense of a101, a young girl and says that the word is. found used in literature in the sense of facgfiq7 also. In the present. stanza, the latter sense appears to be intended. The stanza contains an a ffi or kaarier based on the relation of similitude between. the paga matter actually described and the tega matter suggested. 14 AG pass your time with or manage to do with. 37996197977971." costing very little. 359154 = aqg.&alfi, a temple.garden. Does.
380154177 stand for faca47-the leaf of a Bilva tree gicwir g in as temple-garden? quilos = geagito very fragile. The suggested senseis : Manage to do with i.e. satisfy your carnal needs with a profes-- sional harlot who is easy to get and costs comparatively little. A girl belonging to a high family is very costly and fragile i.e. will not remain with you for long. This is perhaps the practical advice: given by some person to a man who is thinking of having a love : affair with a noble-born girl. faat corresponds to get and 250mle corresponds to a noble.born girl. According to the commentator, this stanza contains an advice to a young girl. But the sense of the stanza as given above is decidedly more plausible... though of course the advice given here is at variance with the one contained in the preceding stanza, which warns wise men against association with harlots. If we adopt the sense ata for the word
that, the meaning of the first half of the stanza would be : "Pass your cime in the company of a young girl (after marrying her), - for she is easy to get and costs little". The apparent sense of the second half would be the same as before. The suggested sense of the second half would be : "A harlot is very costly and fragile i.e. fickle or unsteady". In this case the stanza would be a hybrid mixture of a relevant matter directly expressed in the first halfand an irrelevant (non-contextual) matter expressed in the secord half, with the indirect suggestion of the relevant matter emanating from it. 5096447 would correspond to the harlot, who is more or less a public property,like the leaves of trees in a temple-garden:
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