Vajjalaggam

SR No.: 020873
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M V Patwardhan
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 706
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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24. THE SECTION ON THE CAMEL
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214*3) The wife of the hunter did not lament so full-throatedly (profusely), even when her husband died, as when she heard the trumpeting sound of mighty elephants near the habitation of the huntsmen.
214*4) On seeing a group of huntsmen in the region of their habitation, coming out in the early morning, with the mass of their hair dishevelled, the purchasers (or traders) of ivory go back (despairing of getting any elephant-tusks in a place where the huntsmen are living a dissolute nocturnal life and hence do not have any stamina left in them to kill elephants for ivory).
214*5) Let alone the killing of elephants. Your son is par«. ing the bow-staff. What (otherwise) is the greatness (power) of our swelling, form and heavy bosoms ?*
21. The Section on the Camel 226*1) Oh camel, do not at all desire to eat each and every sprout (that you come across). Your face (mouth) lifted up and long sighs emanating from your mouth, you will breathe your last, remembering your (favourite) creeper*.
226*2) Oh camel, do not feel sorry on tasting the bee-hive which has been obtained by you somehow, by chance. How possibly can things eagerly desired by one's heart be obtained every day?
225*3) Oh camel, you are sighing, weeping, feeling distressed, pining, worrying (Para) and are wandering about in grief (rat = 3fga:). Surely (it must be said that) you tasted that creeper only to court your death (मरणस्स कए'.
26. The Section on the Bee 252*1) If the bee, leaving aside the lotus excessively fragrant because of its prominent filaments (AACAAT) and honey, longs for the pāțala flowers, what is the (special) virtue (in those flowers), that is responsible for that ?
Sense obscuro.