SECTION CXIX.
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Valmiki and Dutt, Manmatha Nath
Source notes
Some texts—Living.—T.
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The North West Provinces text omits the lines inclosed within brackets.
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Musical instruments.
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Lit, fair-feathered, a name of Garura.—r.
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Another text reads vinisvasantan, joining it to narendram—foremopst of men.—T.
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Three consecutive showers, favourable to the crops.—T.
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Another reading is; What becomes of the virtue that we expect at thy hands?— T.
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The meaning is,—Trees will please Rāghava by spreading for him a bed of leaves and flowers.—T.
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The N. W. P. text has an additional couplet:—How will that exalted lady, Janaka's daughter, ever engaged in enjoyment, bear misery?—T.
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The N. W. P. text has an additional line:—And of the reprehensible Kaikeyi intent upon cruel deeds.—T.
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Varieties of deer.— T.
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When an eminent guest came to a person's house, he offered madhuparka, with a bull which was killed for his entertainment.—T.
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The N. W. P. text reads:—"And in that romantic forest abounding in various kinds of beasts and birds, with trees bearing a profusion of variegated flowers, and resounding with the roars of beasts and serpents, those ones and, who had conquered their senses, began to live happily."— T.
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Another reading is:—"And having with garlands made of wild flowers, fruits, roots, meat cooked according to the ordinance, water, Japa as prescribed by the Veda, grass, and faggot, worshipped the spirits, those descendants of Raghu, the auspicious Rāma and Lakshmana, in company with Sitā entered the graceful mansion."— T.
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Some read Eladhāni.—T.
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Some read Apharaparyatā.
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The river, according to some, is so named because it transforms the surrounding objects to stone.—T.
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Some make agneya an epithet to Salyakarshana, meaning, relating to the south-east.—T.
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According to Tirtha. Silāvahā is a stream having Agneya on one side and Salyakarshana on the other.—T.
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Lit., mighty mountains.—T.
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