12 NOTES ON (स्पष्टा) श्यामिका. A cloud is dark like the beard. उज्ज्वलत्..शिखा hat was as if the end of the lamp-black (कज़ल ) of the faming lamp of love. स्फुरत्-.राजी the line of smoke from the blazing (स्फुरत् ) fire of his prowess. स्फुरन् प्रतापः एव अनलः तस्य धूमराजी. मकर-~वी that was the तमाल plant in the garden of cupid. चन्द्रा० was hand some like cupid and the beard was like तमाल (the leaves of which are dark). मनोभवदतिः the appearance of the freelh (not deep, not pitchy) darkness of the beginning of the night (दोषा ) in the form of the excitement of love मनोभवविकारः एव दोषा तस्याः आरम्भस्य बालतिमिरं तस्य उन्नतिः. दोषो वातादिके दोषा रात्रौ दक्षोऽपि कुकुटे" The word मनो..हूतिः is capable of another sense also मनोभवविकारेण दोषः ( vice ) तस्य आरम्भः तेन वालतिमिरं ( the inability to distinguish between what is good and evil). उद्वाह..संज्ञा a sign made with the brow for (celebrating ) the auspicious ceremony of the marriage ( of चन्द्रापीड). One makes a sign by the movements of his eyebrows, that are dark. The dark beard was भ्रसंशा indicat ing that the time for celebrating the princes marriage had arrive ed. संमब्रय taking counsel with, consulting. अभिजनरूपा (अभिजन- <noble descentरूपं यस्याः) whose beauty consists in her noble birth. तारापीड means that the greatest regard was to be paid to noble descent in choosing a bride for च०. वधूः daughter-in-law. P. 28 1. 10–p. 29 1. 11. साधु•.दिवसमनयत् अनेन refers to चन्द्रापीडेन. सहृदयः a man of taste, a man of critical faculty. हृदये पिता: has placed in the heart (studied). सर्वविद्य–the विद्यऽ were fourteen in ancient India ‘पुराणन्यायमीमांसा धर्मशास्त्राङ्गमिश्रिताः। वेदाः स्थानानि विद्यानां धर्मस्य च चतुर्दश ' (quoted in the प्रस्थानभेद of मधुसूदनसरस्वती ). They were the 4 Vedas, 6 अङ्गs (auxiliary lores of the Vedas), मीमांसा (of जैमिनि and वादरायण), न्याय (of गौतम ), धर्मशास्त्र (such as मनुस्मृति, महाभारत &&c) and पुराण. Some enumer ated 18adding to the above the 4 उपवेद ३ ८i>. आयुर्वेद, धनुर्वेद, गान्धर्ववेद and अर्थशास्त्र, सम्भाविताः honoured (४. ea. nmastered). कलाः —They were 64 in ancient India, such as गीतवाद्यनृत्य &c. They are enn- merated in वात्स्यायन कामसूत्र (I. 3.). स्वीकृताः accepted B. e. attracted. गृहीता...कराः he has taken the hands ( as if in marriage ) of the women in the form of all the quarters. The word कराः neans also tribute, taxes' and so the clause means he has brought under his sway all the quarters.' स्थापितैव...लक्ष्मीः he has established kingly splendour (sovereignty) that is (now) steady in the position of a (chaste) house-wife. When राजलक्ष्मी was shared by numerous kings . she was not like a कुटुम्बिनी; she was common to many. ut now
