The MâlavikâgnimitraGovernment central book Departmentôt, 1869 - 164 pages |
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Page xix - Kalidas of antiquity ; but the manners described appear to be those of a degenerate state of Hindu society, and it can scarcely be thought earlier than the tenth or eleventh century. It may possibly have been the production of a somewhat later day, in some part of India which continued to preserve its political independence and Hindu character. We shall now proceed to an analysis of the drama itself. The play opens with the entrance of Vakulavali, a female attendant upon Dharini, the principal queen,...
Page ix - ANADATT. (50.) Wherever after performing an elision or substitution enjoined by a rule, a single consonant comes to represent a conjunct, this letter is always doubled, except in the beginning of a word. As examples of such, after elision : Bhuttam, maggo. Bhukta, 'eaten
Page xxxii - In addition to these considerations, the style of the play is very unlike that most common amongst modern writers, and most highly esteemed, being free from all jingle of sounds and from metaphorical common-place : it does not even affect any thing like the uniform smoothness, which seems to have preceded and ushered in the extravagancies of modern composition.
Page 125 - Устелят, that the innocence you have claimed with regard to the origin of the dispute and the indifference you have shown as to the result of the contest of the two masters of dancing and music was merely assumed and that an intrigue lay at the bottom of the -affair.
Page 150 - A kulavrata is a family custom inherited from generation to generation, such as the celebration, for instance, of a festival in honour of any deity on a particular day, annually.
Page 117 - Purâna, from the Riksha mountain. (See Vishnu Purâna, p. 184. n. 70.) There is no doubt that the Mandâkinî of the present passage is a river of the Deccan. And further, it is probable that it may here stand for the Narmada, in conformity with a practice, still very common all over India, of designating any sacred river by the most sacred river-name, as Ganga, &c.
Page 131 - Sraddhas,and to which class our (3^ belonged, to signify 'an engagement at a graddha, which, when once begun, must be carried out, on pain of incurring sin.
Page xxii - Every great writer, whether of prose or poetry, has always a settled style of composition. This is especially the case with those poets and authors who take delight in an easy and natural expression of their thoughts, and never surrender their good sense and fondness for perspicuity to a laboured and obscure style of writing. Whatever is natural and ordinary will be frequently repeated in the writings of one and the same author.
Page 122 - Decorated with such dress and ornaments as she must wear as the wife of a living husband ; Cf , .
Page xxxv - Bauddha faith," and though, according to him, " there is nothing in the piece to assign the character to any particular sect," it does most likely belong to the Bauddha religion. A female ascetic, properly so called, is nowhere met with in the Brahmanical writings. A widow, who, not burning herself on the funeral pile of her dead husband, survives him, and leads a life of austerities, is, no doubt, a kind of f Sannyâsinî...