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(read 989), gets its mg: 'with a flying,' i.e. ‘flying' or ‘having flown.' —vidarbhān, 274a. —agamaṅs, u.f. agaman, 208, aor. of √gam, 846.
7. ga-tvā, gerund again, 991: the root, gam, shows the same form as in the ppl. ga-ta, 954d. —U.f. tadā antike.
8. nipetus, √pat+ni, 800d, 794e. —da-darça, 222 N.
9. dṛṣ-tvā, √drç, 991, 218. —U.f. sakhi-gaṇa‿āvrtā, 'surrounded by (her) friend- crowd,' 1265 : sakhi- is demanded by the metre, instead of sakhī-, p. 300, §21d: a-vṛ-tā, ppl. of √1 vṛ+ā.
10. hṛṣ-ṭā, ppl. of √hṛṣ, 197. —grahītum, inf., 968, 9723: used here with verb of motion (√kram - see 9813), Latin, 'subiit captum'. —khagamāṅs, u.f. —ān, 208; but the s is here a true historic survival, cf. 21N. —U.f. tvaramāṇā upa-, 127: √tvar, 741: upa-ca-kram-e, √kram+upa, 590b, 800a, 3d s. mid.
11. See √sṛp+vi, and 800.
12. ekāikaças refers to both subject and object—‘singulae (puellae) singulos (an- seres).' —sam-upa‿adravan, √dru, 742.
13. sam-upa‿adhāvat, √dhāv, 742. —antike, 'in the presence, i.e. near,' is superfluous with 'ran on unto.'
14. kṛ-tvā, √1kṛ, mg 3, and 991. —abravīt, 3d s. imf. of √brū, w. acc. of person, 274b. —13-14. Observe that the relative clause comes first, w. incorporated antecedent, 'ad quem anserem D. accurrit, is…dixit': cf. 512, and vocab. ya 4.
15. With mahīpatis supply asti, 'there is a prince...': cf. 212 N. end.
16. The first half-line goes w. line 15: supply santi in the second. —The two genitives are explained at 296b. —The caesura, be it observed, here marks the beginning of a new clause. This is often the case. So 32, 8, 18. 21, 56, etc.
17. bhāryā, predicate nom. —U.f. bhavethās, 177, 738. —var-, voc.s., 304, fem., 440 end.
18. bhavej, u.f. bhavet, 202, 738. —janma, 424. —U.f. rūpam ca idam, 'pulcritudoque haec'. — Fruitful (of good) would be thy birth, and this beauty (of thine),' i.e. it would then prove a fortunate thing that thou wast born and art so beautiful.
19. For the long cpd, see 1247 I2: divide -mānuṣa-uraga-, 127: the whole is object of dṛṣṭa-vant-as (supply smas, 'sumus'—212 N. end), which is exactly like the Eng. '(are) having seen'='have seen': read 959 and 960. —In the later mythology, the serpents are divine beings with human face, whose beauty is often praised: cf. 131.
20. U.f. na ca asmābhis (491), 'neque a nobis.' —dṛṣṭapūrvas, supply āsīt and see N. to 212. —tathāvidhas, substantively, of course: (a man) of such sort'.
21. U.f. tvam ca api, supply asi, as in 212 N. —nārīṇām, 364, in vocab. under nãra, —nalo, supply asti, as in 212 N.
22. U.f. viçiṣṭāyās, 177, gen.s.f., ppl. of √çiṣ+vi. —For use of instr., 284. —‘Eximiae cum eximio congressus.' —For saṁgama, read p. 291 ¶ 7.
23. For viçãm pate, ‘O prince', s.v. víç 2, see 114 N. end.
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1. abravīt, see 314 N. —nale, 304a. —Do thou speak so to Nala also' (sc. as thou hast to me). The api ought to follow nale.
2. See iti, mg 2, and tathā, mg 2. —uktvā, √vac, 991: the root shows same weak form as in ppl., 954b—cf. 217.
3. ā-gam-ya, 990. —nale, as in line 1. —See √1vid+ni: imf. 3d s. of caus., 1042a, cf. 1043. —2-3. ‘The bird, saying "Yes" to the maid (274b) of Vidarbha,…, com- municated all to Nala.'
4. See iti, mg 2e. —In this poem, adhyāya (not sarga) is the proper word for 'chapter.'
6. For tac chrutvā, see N. to 17a: tat, 495 : çru-tvā, 991. —bhārata, see N. to 114 end.
7. prati, here used as a true "preposition ", or rather postposition, connecting nalam with svasthā—see 1123. —babhūva √bhū, 789a.
