प्रियदर्शिका नाटिका (सम्राट हर्षवर्धन - चतुरङ्क शास्त्रीय नाटिका सान्वय सटीक)

&c.. 'This speech of A'rn. is to be read directly after उत्सङ्गे वीणां कृत्वा सारयति । The entrance of Manoramâ, the king and Vida., the participants in the intrigue being considered as aside. उद्देशः—Part of the story, context ( so that he may know where his part begins ). अपहरसि मे—Transports me with joy, fascinates or infatuates me. The king overhears her and understands अपहरसि in the sense of 'takes me away.' सृजामि—the object being तम्. प्रविश्य—i. e. on the stage of the Garbhanâṭaka unseen by A'rn, Vâsa. and Kán. ग्रन्थिं बध्नामि—It seems from this to have been an old custom, which still prevails in many parts of India, to tie a knot generally at the end of a garment when there is some pronouncement or an auspicious omen in favour of one's desired object, and is therefore called शकुनग्रन्थि ( शकुनगांठ in Marâṭhi ). It is also tied when one is determined or definitely undertakes to do a thing (निश्चयसूचक) and wishes to be reminded of it. Śl. 6. अपहरामि—अपहरिष्यामि, pres. in the sense of immediate future. अपहरामि इति पश्यामि the whole line, however, is metrically faulty; but it is so found in almost all the printed editions. Śreenivasachariar reads.—नाहरणं न चिरादेवेति पश्यामि, but this seems to be a conjectural emendation, and is also syntactically in- accurate. We cannot connect उपनीय with अपहरण unless we supply स्थितेन—उपनीय स्थितेन मया, अह after पश्यामि is dropped as a useless addition, that might have originally got in through the carelessness of some scribe. सुसंनिहितं सर्वं &c.—Well arranged and brought within reach, i. e. made practicable. यौगन्ध०— युगन्धरस्य अपत्यं पुमान्; the son of Yugandhara, who was the chief minister of Vatsa's father, Sahasrânîka. Similarly the fathers of Rumạnvat and Vasantaka also were his father's servants. See Br K. M. II. 12, 13; सुतो युगन्धरस्यासीच्छ्रीमान्यौगन्धरायणः । रुमण्वान् सुप्रतीकस्य द्विजस्य च वसन्तकः ॥ यौगन्धरायणो मन्त्री रुमण्वान्वाहिनीपतिः । वसन्तको नर्मसुहृद्वाजपुत्रीसुहृत्ततः ॥ Ibid. 38, 39. Yaugandharâyaṇa was the devoted minister of Vatsarâja, the purpose of whose life was to see his master elevated to the rank of an emperor. When he heard that his master was put into custody he, leaving the cares of the kingdom to Rumạnvat, came to Ujjain with Vasantaka to concert a plan for his master's escape. There he entered the cemetery and by the help of a friendly Brahma- râkshasa, called योगेश्वर, he changed his own form into that of a dwarfish old hunch-back, and gave Vasantaka a deformed shape with a protuberant belly and projecting teeth and found access by