रत्नावली नाटिका (सम्राट हर्षवर्धन - शास्त्रीय नाटिका रत्न सम्पूर्ण ४ अङ्क सान्वय सटीक)

296 रत्नावली
spokes. हेम्नः अराणि ( ६ठीतत् ) तेषां पंक्तयः ( ६ठीतत् ) स्पष्टाः हेमारपंक्तयः यस्य
( बहु ) सः।
अर means spokes of a wheel.
N. B. The handful of scarlet rays scattering on all sides
appears like golden spokes of a wheel.
अस्तक्षितिभृति—On the setting mountain, क्षितिं बिभर्त्ति इति क्षिति—भृ +
क्विप्, सप्तम्येकवचने। दिक्-चक्रम्—दिग् एव चक्रम् ( रूपक, मयूरव्यंसकादित्वात्
समासः ) ।
The idea of this shloka is this :—At the close of the day
the sun is resting on the setting mountain with a handful of
scarlet rays scattered on all sides from the western sky. The
chariot by which the sun makes his aerial journey is said to
have only one wheel. Now, the sun, lingering on the western
horizon with his scarlet rays, appears to be troubled with the
thought as to how he would be able to travel such a long weari-
some course in a single-wheeled chariot in order, to give attend-
ance in the eastern horizon punctually early in the next morn-
ing. Hence it appears that he has taken his seat on the western
hill with a view to solving the difficulty by furnishing his
chariot with another wheel that he finds in the form of the
circular horizon ( दिक्-चक्र ). And in order to use that horizon-
circle as his second wheel, he appears to strengthen it first by
joining to it his handful of golden rays as its spokes. The sun
is here implicitly compared with a man possessing a strong
sense of duty who in time makes everything ready for regular
attendance to his duty every day.
The metre is स्रग्धरा। The figure of speech is उत्प्रेक्षा।
Ch. of voice.—एकचक्रेण......प्रभूयते......रथेन......न्यस्तचिन्तातिभारेण
......स्पष्टहेमारपंक्तिना व्यवस्थितेन एतेन...नीयते...अर्केण ॥५॥