पृष्ठम्:वेणीसंहारम् (आङ्गलटिप्पणीसहितम्).pdf/२१२

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Bhatta Narayana-Venisamhara.

represented on the stage, Sundaraka is supposed to be witnessing them and his descriptions of them which are meant for the audience posses a good deal of pathos about them and cannot fail to excite pity and horror. Though the soliloquy so devised is drawn out to a rather tedious length, the prolixity is compensated by a pretty good variety in the pictures of misery and woe which it presents.

 P. 52. 'आर्याः अपिनाम......न वेति. The word 'इति' in this sentence cannot be construed and is probably spurious.

 बद्धपरिकराणाम्--बद्धः परिकरः येषां तथाभूतानाम्. (Standing ) with their loins girded up,' because they have just come away from the battle-field and have not yet ungirt their loins.

 घनसन्नाहजालदुर्भेद्यमुखैः (कङ्कवदनैः)–घनः सन्नाहः जालमिव, तेन दुर्भेद्यानि मुखानि येषां तथाभूतैः '(With pincers)' the tips of which are incapable of being blunted by the solid wire-gauze coat of mail. In pulling out the darts the pincers were used and these penetrated through the solid coat of mail without their tips being blunted.

 अतिकरुणं खल्वत्र वर्तते- Here there is a most tragic scene.

 रक्तांशुकनिवसनया–रक्तांशुकं निवसनं यस्याः तादृश्या. Dressed in a red garment. समग्रभूषणया - Wearing all ornaments.

 A lady setting about to perform self-immolation after the death of her husband would dress herself in a red garment and put on all possible ornaments as symbolic of that blessed wifehood which she must enjoy after such feat of self-immolation. The appearance of such a lady is intended to bear marked contrast with that of a woman who is content to live after her husband as a widow with her person stripped of all ornaments and otherwise disfigured.

 P. 53. अन्यस्मिन्नपि जन्मान्तरे--The expression involves redundance. We should expect either 'जन्मान्तरेऽपि' or 'अन्यस्मिन्नपि जन्मनि'. The commentator has, however, made an ingenious attempt to explain away the fault. He says that the present life itself is a जन्मान्तर with reference to past lives and the life to come is, therefore, अन्यजन्मान्तर with reference to the present life.

 अकृतव्रणबन्धः--अकृतः व्रणानां बन्धः येन तादृशः Who have not dressed or bandaged their Wounds.

 शून्यासनं तुरङ्गममुपालभ्य- Reproaching a horse with a