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pun on TSIT: appears to be intended by the author. But its exact point is not clear. The commentator understands at in FIET as an interjection in the sense of a, 'alas'. It is not clear how he cons'trues and understands al.
742) गुरुविहववित्थर, masses or heaps of excessive wealth. उत्थमिर = 377Hari (SFÅH + $T, suffix in the sense of East A). 57027 represents ✓ BIFATIT, VITA in Sanskrit and means to prop, to support. T would have an active sense and would mean "one who is in the habit of or is given to supporting or propping up". But that does not suit here. It would be better to read उत्थभिए (for उत्थंभिरे) "one who is propped up or supported by his excessive wealth”, i.e. raised aloft or elevated to a high position by his excessive wealth. Bafquit mendicants, supplicants. Pagal
= F01: ( 1:), going unrewarded, unsatisfied, ungratified. Or fast may be taken as standing for fara ti, distressed, miserable, wretched, cf. st. 116. This stanza refers to the belief that the fruits of the Palāśa tree are not edible. See the third quarter of the next stanza.
743) Tetojag = ghaligong, in solitary (unfrequented) regions. faigh a means a bower or arbour, a place overgrown with shrubs and creepers. Here it can mean only a place or region (75T). IA
= a:, potential second person singular form Vat (T). qui fù gas981, whose fruits are pleasant to eat even in a slight degree. at goza , who can adjudge your worth:? Cf. st. 710 1 3941 IR ठविज्जंति.
744) An intent on drying up the moisture (of the ocean), AtanfA ASETET AT ATETE I a 99 is not aware of it. Fit may be connected either with Affet in the sense of 'clearly' or with 7 (5377) in the sense of 'really, verily'. 2 aq 7974, neither you, nor the surface of the world would fare well. The sense is perhaps as follows: the ocean is so vast that it is not even aware of the submarine fire burning in one part of it. But if the ocean comes to know about it, what would happen ? Both the submarine fire and the world will not be there, i.e. they will not fare well, they will come into trouble. The moment the ocean comes to know about the presence of the submarine fire, the ocean would completely overpower and extinguish it with its immense masses of water. But if the submarine fire is extinguished in this manner, the
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