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

A SANSKRIT ROMANCE 135 boughs ¹ exceedingly noisy with skylarks ; with intensely bright dawn ; with flocks of wandering parrots in the fields of rice ; with flamingoes come as guests ² ; with a sky whose brightness was that of the body of Kaṁsa's foe ³ ; with old clouds like goose- down ⁴ ; with the pleasure of dogs whose heat was intensified ; [287] with shoots of sweet sugar-cane ⁵ ; with lakes possessed of the quintessence of the delightful sound of the herons ; with pools whose banks were dug up by the snouts of boars ; delighted by roots of beautiful ⁶ kasērus ; with startled cātakas ⁷ ; causing joy ⁸ by the sweet sound of flocks of wandering matsyaputrikā birds ; with disdained kadambas ; the foe of conches ; with expanded lotuses ; with clouds at intervals ; [288] with unusually bright stars ; with a beautiful moon ⁹ ; with unusually sweet water in the pools ¹⁰ ; with flocks of motionless cranes swallowing shoals of flashing carp ¹¹ ; with multitudes of silent frogs ; with shrivelled serpents ; with rice ¹² yellow with golden particles ; with screaming ospreys ; with the air delightful with the perfume of fragrant white lotuses ; lovely with white lotuses ¹³ ; charming ¹⁴ in the moonlight ¹⁵ ; with moulting peacocks ¹⁶ ; with murmuring paddy- birds ; with dhārtarāṣṭra geese ¹⁷ ; with herds of deer delighted by ¹ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, ‘boughs of the trees.’ ² Tel. ed., ‘with flamingoes entering fields of rice that had flocks of wandering parrots’ ; Srirangam text, ‘with fields of rice filled with the noise of wandering parrots.’ ³ Namely, blue as Kṛṣṇa. ⁴ Tel. ed., ‘with clouds glittering like flocks of geese.’ ⁵ Tel. ed., ‘with the radiance of the moon intensified ; with shoots of sugar-cane, the joy of lovers’ ; Srirangam text, ‘with the radiance of the moon intensified ; with shoots of sugar-cane crushed by travellers.’ ⁶ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text omit ‘beautiful.’ ⁷ Tel. ed., ‘with startled cātakas on the banks of pools dug up,’ etc. ⁸ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text omit ‘causing joy ..... expanded lotuses.’ ⁹ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, ‘with a moon that was the adornment of the west.’ ¹⁰ Tel. ed., ‘filled with sweet sap’ ; Srirangam text, ‘with exceedingly sweet water.’ ¹¹ Tel. ed., ‘with rows of motionless vultures and cranes swallowing flashing carp’ ; the Srirangam text also omits ‘shoals.’ ¹² Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, ‘wheat and rice.’ ¹³ Tel. ed., ‘lovely with white lotuses that were slightly opened by a wind charming with the perfume of fragrant white lotuses’ ; similarly the Srirangam text. ¹⁴ Tel. ed. omits from here to ‘Kandarpakētu.’ ¹⁵ Srirangam text omits this phrase. ¹⁶ Srirangam text, ‘with peacocks whose tail feathers had fallen out.’ ¹⁷ Srirangam text ‘with delighted dhārtarāṣṭra geese.’