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

128 VĀSAVADATTĀ by the circling mountain of the plantain-trees on its bank ¹ ; with the young śaivāla on the sand banks in its waters ² trampled by pairs of mermen alarmed by the terrible swaying, produced by wave and wind, of palmyra-palms, marsh date-palms, and taliera- palms ³ ; with letters on its banks scrawled by the edges of whelks ⁴ that were distressed because their mouths were torn by tips of coral prongs ; with its waters crowded by flocks of birds of Garuḍa's race ; seeming to have the completion of its slow churn- ing still unfinished because of its eddying whirlpools ; epileptic, as it were, because of its foam ⁵ ; [269] filled with the goodly delights of drink, one might fancy, because of the perfume of the medlars on its banks ⁶ ; angry,⁷ so to say, because of its roarings ; appearing to be distressed because of its sighings ⁸ ; seamed with frowns, it might be thought, because of its waves ; resembling an elephant corral because of Rāma's bridge ; the birthplace of <salt> as the womb of Kumbhīnasī was the birthplace of <Lavaṇa> ; <lavish in its duties toward the wide-spread ⁹ rivers that were its spouses> as grammar has <abundant comprehensive feminines, i and u declensions, and gerunds> ¹⁰ ; showing a great <bed> as the retinue of a king shows great <ministers> ; with <hisses> emitted by many <serpents> that had come to its <waters> as an elephant's place of bondage has <trumpetings> emitted by many <elephants> that have come to the <tying-place> ; [270] adorned with <ambhojacāmaras and fish> as the series of Viśvāmitra's sons was ¹ Tel. ed., ‘impenetrable because of the thickets of cardamoms, carambolas, cloves, and citrons swaying in the circuit of the plantain forest’ ; similarly the Srirangam text. ² Tel. ed. omits ‘in its waters’ ; Srirangam text, ‘low-lying, small śaivāla.’ ³ Tel. ed., ‘mermen moving in the forest of taliera-palms, terrible, very tremulous, and howling with wave and wind’ ; similarly the Srirangam text. ⁴ Tel. ed., ‘by the noisy, sharp tips of the whelks’ ; Srirangam text, ‘tips of the . sharp nails of the whelks.’ ⁵ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, ‘the masses of its white foam.’ ⁶ Tel. ed., ‘possessed of the perfume of drink, one might fancy, because of the perfume of its cardamoms’ ; Srirangam text, ‘because of the perfume of the medlars on its shore.’ ⁷ Tel. ed., ‘noisy.’ ⁸ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, ‘exhalations of its serpents.’ ⁹ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text omit ‘wide-spread’ and ‘comprehensive.’ ¹⁰ See Pāṇini, 1. 4. 3 ; 3. 1. 95.