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

ting our God'? (p. 106); 'thou weepest for the death of thy daughter, and I laugh at the folly of the father, for greater vanitie is there in the minde of the mourner, then bitternesse in the death of the deceased. But shee was amiable, but yet sinful, but she was young and might haue liued, but she was mortall and must haue dyed. I but hir youth made thee often merry, I but thine age shold once make thee wise. I but hir greene yeares wer unfit for death, I but thy hoary haires should dispyse life' (pp. 182– 183). (4) Learned allusions: 'the filthy Sow when she is sicke, eateth the Sea-Crab, and is immediatly recured: the Torteyse hauing tasted the Viper, sucketh Origanum and is quickly reuiued: the Beare ready to pine licketh vp the Ants, and is recouered: the Dog hauing surfetted to procure his vomitte, eateth grasse and findeth remedy: the Hart beeing perced with the dart, run- neth out of hand to the hearb Dictanum, and is healed. . . . Ah well I perceiue that Loue is not unlyke the Figge tree, whose fruite is sweete, whose roote is more bitter then the clawe of a Bitter: or lyke the Apple in Persia, whose blossome sauoreth lyke Honny, whose budde is more sower then Gall' (p. 61); 'Loue knoweth no laws: Did not Iupiter transforme himselfe into the shape of Amphitrio to embrace Alcmæna? Into the forme of a Swan to enioy Læda: Into a Bull to beguile Iò: Into a showre of golde to winne Danae: Did not Neptune chaunge himselfe into a Heyfer, a Ramme, a Floud, a Dolphin, onely for the loue of those he lusted after? Did not Apollo conuert him- selfe into a Shephearde, into a Birde, into a Lyon: for the desire he had to heale his disease'? (p. 93). Parallels such as these might be multiplied indefinitely, not only between the Vāsavadattā and the Euphues, but between Subandhu's romance and many other productions both of the East and of the West.¹ Here, however, it must suffice to note that Dunlop, in his History of Prose Fiction (ed. Wilson, London, 1896), records the following incidents and motifs which may now

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¹ For parallels in the Vāsavadattā and Bāṇa's romances with The Thousand Nights and One Night see Gray, 'Literary Studies on the Sanskrit Novel,' in WZKM. 18. 39–48.