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7. paryupāsac chacīm, u.f. pary-upa‿āsat çacīm, see 17a N.: āsat, 3d s. imf. of a-class (742- augment 585) fr. √ās; this is reg. of the root-class, 628, and mid. voice. —6-7. Lit. 'Now, her marriageable age having come, of slaves an adorned hundred, and a hundred of friends sat around her (tām), as (they do) around Çacī.'

8. rājate, √rāj, 735. —sarva‿ābharaņa-bhūṣitā, 'adorned with all (her) jewels,' a dependent cpd (1265), whose first member, sarvābharaņa, is itself a cpd, like sarvaguņa, see 112 N.

9. sakhī-madhye, see madhya 1. —ana-vadyāñgī, initial elided, 135: the cpd is the possessive form of a descriptive, 1297-8. —vidyut, 391. The Hindu epos often likens maiden beauty to the brilliantly flashing lightning of the rain-cloud.

10. rūpa-sampannā goes with bhāimī. —U f. çri-s (174) iva āyata-locanā, like long-eyed Çrī.'

11. U.f. tādṛk, nom.s.f. —rūpavatī nom.s.f. of rūpavant, 452.

12. U.f. mānuṣeṣu (129) api ca anyeṣu dṛṣṭa-pūrvā (sc. āsīt) atha vā çrutā. —api ca continues the force of the preceding negatives, 'nor also.' —For dṛṣṭa-pūrva, see reference in vocab.: dṛṣ-ṭa, ppl. of √dṛç, 218. —atha , see atha 6. —çrutā= çruta-pūrvā, 13168. —Omission of copula (asi, asti, smas, santi, āsīt, 'art, is, are, was,' etc., 636) is extremely common; esp. so w. past pples, which thus do duty as finite verbs—cf. 319 N., 76-7 N. So also in German.

13. citta-pramāthinī, fem., 438, 440 end. —devānām, 1316, first example. —Lines 11-13 belong together: 'Neither among gods nor Yakshas (sc. was) such a beauty seen before or heard of, nor also among other beings, (namely) mortals': bālā is added in apposition to the subject.

14. nalaç, 170c. —bhuvi, 351.

15. kandarpa, 175b. —mūrtimān, 453. —abhavat, 742. —'In beauty he was like K. himself incarnate or having bodily form‘ —w. pregnant mg, since K. is said to be "bodiless,' an-añga.

16. U.f. tasyās, 495. —pra-çaçaṅsuḥ, 3d pl. perf. (800a) of √çans+pra, p. 254: subject indef., 'they' or 'messengers.'

17. punaḥ punaḥ, u.f. punar punar, 178.

18. tayor, 495. —bhūc chṛṇvatoḥ, u.f. abhūt çṛṇvatos, see 17a N.: abhūt, 829: çṛ-ņv-at-os, loc. du., 447, of pres. ppl., 705, of √çru, 710.

19. anyonyam, see vocab. —kāunteya, see 114 N. end. —vy-avardhata, √vrdh+vi, 742.

20. a-çak-nuv-an, negatived pres. ppl., 705 (cf. 6973 and 1292), of √çak. —dhārayitum, inf., 10516, of √dhṛ, whose pres. is made from a caus. stem, 1041, 1042b. —hṛd-ā, 391.

21. antaḥpura-, read p. 291, paragraph 4. —vana, u.f. vane, 133. —ās-te, 612. —gata-s, ppl. of √gam, 954d. —‘Stays in a wood near the harem, having gone secretly.'

22. dadarça, 3d s. perf. √dṛç, strong stem dadaṛç, weak dadṛç, 792, 793c, 800. —haṅsañ, 2022. —pariṣkṛtān, ppl. of √1kṛ+pari, 1087d, 180. —Gold-adorned'=‘of golden plumage’.

23. vi-caratām, gen. pl. of pres. ppl. of √car+vi. —teṣām, 495. —jagrāha, 3d s. perf. of √grah, 590b, 800.

NOTES TO PAGE 3.

1. vācam etc., see under vāc. —vy-ā-jahāra, 590b, 800.

2. Lines 2-4 are the words of the bird. —asmi, 636. —te, enclitic, and tava, are gen.s. of 2d pers. pron., 491: use of case, 296b. —rājan, 424. —kariṣyāmi, 933. —See priya 2a.

3. tvām, 491, object of kathayiṣyāmi, fut. of denom. stem kathaya, 933. —Supply tathā as correl. of yathā na, 'ut non', next line.

4. See yathā 6. —tvad, 491, abl. w. anya, 292b. —maṅsyati, 933, √man, mg 4.

5. ut-sa-sarj-a, √sṛj+ud, 800.

6. te must be from ta, 495, since the enclitic te (491) could not stand at beg. of verse. —sam-ut-pat-ya, gerund of √pat+sam-ud, 990. Note how the gerund, as instr. of accompaniment of a verbal noun