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Название: The Kādambarī of Bāṇa

Автор: Bhūṣaṇabhaṭṭa

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СКАЧАТЬ Awakening cry; (b) moral law.

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Owls are supposed to be descendants of the sage Viçvāmitra.

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As omens.

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Piçitāçna, a demon, or, according to the commentary here, a tiger.

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Lit., ‘creating a doubt of.’

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Cf. Emerson’s Essay on Experience: ‘Sleep lingers all our life-time about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.’

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Read, Çramā.

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Lit., ‘To have been an extract from.’

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Sacred to Indra, and burnt by Agni with the help of Arjuna and Kṛishṇa.

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Three horizontal lines.

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Truth in thought, word, and deed.

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Read, Nishpatatā.

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Nīlapānḍu, mottled blue and white. The Hindu penance is to be between five fires: four on earth and the sun above. V. Manu, vi. 23.

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The sign of a vow.

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(a) Bark garment; (b) bark of trees.

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(a) Girdle. V. Manu, ii. 42; (b) mountain slope.

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Or, the moon.

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Or, with.

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(a) Kṛipā = compassion; (b) Kṛipa was the teacher of Açvatthāma, or Drauṇi.

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Or, Virgo, Cervus, the Pleiads and Draco.

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(a) Having twilight drunk up; (b) having many faults eradicated.

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Rajas = (a) dust; (b) passion.

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In performance of a vow. V. Manu, vi. 23.

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Or, ‘of the demon Naraka,’ slain by Kṛishṇa. Harivaṃça, 122.

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Or, had stars tawny at the junction of night and day.

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Lit., (a) Holding all his passions in firm restraint; (b) having the axle of its wheels firm.

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Lit., (a) He had a body wasted by secret performance of penance; (b) he brought to nought the enemies’ plans of battle by secret counsel and by his army.

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Or, having caves with whirlpools and the circles of shells oblique.

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Or, quays.

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(a) Perhaps Pushkara, the place of pilgrimage in Ajmere; (b) lotus-grove.

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(a) Having entrance into great halls; (b) being absorbed in Brahma.

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Or, salvation.

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Or, inflicted punishment; or, though intent on the Sāma veda, he was yet a daṇḍi; i. e., an ascetic who despises ritual.

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Having beautiful matted locks.

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(a) Having no left eye; (b) having no crooked glances.

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R. V., x. 190.

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Another kind of bread-tree.

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The Commentary explains it as ‘Veda.’

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The tridaṇḍaka or three staves of the mendicant Brahman who has resigned the world.

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Or, impassioned glances.

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(a) Moulting; (b) partisanship.

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Bāla = (a) hair; (b) children.

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Rāmā, woman.

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Çakuni = (a) a bird; (b) Duryodhana’s uncle.

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Vāyu = (a) wind; (b) breath.

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(a) Teeth; (b) Brahmans.

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Or, dullness.

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Or, seeking prosperity.

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Or, seek enjoyment.

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Or good fortune.

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The Gārhapatya, Dakshiṇa, and Āhavanīya fires.

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Proverbial phrase for clearness.

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Vishṇu Purāṇa, vi., ch. 3, ‘The seven solar rays dilate to seven suns, and set the three worlds on fire.’

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Lit., ‘is leader of.’

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Or, caprice.

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Vishṇu Purāṇa, i., 123.

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Semi-divine beings dwelling between the earth and the sun.

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Tārā = (a) stars; (b) wife of Bṛihaspati, carried away by the moon.

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(a) “Wife of the sage Vaçishṭha; (b) the morning star.

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(a) Constellation; (b) staff borne during a vow.

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(a) Constellation; (b) roots for the hermits’ food.

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Or, constellation.

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