वासवदत्ता (महाकवि सुबन्धु - श्लेष-प्रधान शास्त्रीय गद्यकाव्य सान्वय सटीक)

A SANSKRIT ROMANCE 125 masses of honey from dripping hives, broken open by monkeys ¹ ; [262] dense with palmyra-palms, marsh date-palms, betel-nut palms, kamila-trees, and iron-wood trees ² ; impenetrable with clumps of camphor-trees, Arabian jasmines, screw-pines, mountain ebony, coral-trees, citrons, basil, and rose-apple trees ³ ; [263] with bowers of river reeds filled with the cries of unhampered galli- nules ⁴ ; with twigs of luxuriant ⁵ mangoes inhabited by koels ⁶ with their massed, sharp notes ; with spreading boughs ⁷ pressed by families of cocks in their swaying nests ⁸ ; with rows of globe- amaranth horripilated with hosts of buds ; with its ten quarters anointed with the beauty of the red aśoka twigs ; with masses of dust ⁹ from quantities of the pollen of full-blown iron-wood trees ¹⁰ ; producing delight for mankind by the sweet humming of bees maddened by clusters of flowers tawny with pollen ¹¹ ; horribly ¹² scratching the temples of fearless elephants rubbed by the boughs of the trunks ¹³ of the wingseeds that were darkened with ichor ¹⁴ ; [264] with hollow trunks of conessi-bark trees turned into homes for the silk-cotton trees ¹⁵ which are propagated ¹ Tel. ed., 'with the spray of liquid showers of masses of dripping honey broken by monkeys' ; similarly the Srirangam text. ² Tel. ed., 'with lofty cocoanut-palms, betel-nut palms, palmyra-palms, tamāla- trees, marsh date-palms, kamila-trees, iron-wood trees, nagkassar-trees, and camphor- trees' ; similarly the Srirangam text. ³ Tel. ed., 'impenetrable with bushes of Arabian jasmines, screw-pines, mountain ebony, bowstring-hemp, rose-apple trees, citrons, and basil ; with branches of many jack-trees rubbed together by the wind' ; similarly the Srirangam text. ⁴ Tel. ed., 'with numbers of bowers on the river-banks filled with the cries of gallinules' ; similarly the Srirangam text. ⁵ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text omit 'luxuriant.' ⁶ Tel. ed., 'by thronging, eager bees.' ⁷ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, 'with many spreading boughs.' ⁸ Tel. ed. omits 'in their swaying nests.' ⁹ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, 'with its edges made gray.' ¹⁰ Tel. ed., 'pollen of the expanded flowers of iron-wood trees' ; similarly the Srirangam text. ¹¹ Tel. ed., 'bees glittering from the sinduvāra-trees, tawny with masses of pollen ; with cloves, champaks, mahwa-trees, purging cassias, wingseeds, and kadambas' ; similarly the Srirangam text. ¹² Tel. ed. omits 'horribly.' ¹³ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text omit 'of the trunks.' ¹⁴ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, 'scraping the ichor-darkened cheeks.' ¹⁵ Tel. ed., 'with crooked, hollow trunks of silk-cotton trees.'