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

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masses of honey from dripping hives, broken open by monkeys ¹ ;
[262] dense with palmyra-palms, marsh date-palms, betel-nut
palms, kamila-trees, and iron-wood trees ² ; impenetrable with
clumps of camphor-trees, Arabian jasmines, screw-pines, mountain
ebony, coral-trees, citrons, basil, and rose-apple trees ³ ; [263] with
bowers of river reeds filled with the cries of unhampered galli-
nules ⁴ ; with twigs of luxuriant ⁵ mangoes inhabited by koels ⁶ with
their massed, sharp notes ; with spreading boughs ⁷ pressed by
families of cocks in their swaying nests ⁸ ; with rows of globe-
amaranth horripilated with hosts of buds ; with its ten quarters
anointed with the beauty of the red aśoka twigs ; with masses
of dust ⁹ from quantities of the pollen of full-blown iron-wood
trees ¹⁰ ; producing delight for mankind by the sweet humming
of bees maddened by clusters of flowers tawny with pollen ¹¹ ;
horribly ¹² scratching the temples of fearless elephants rubbed by
the boughs of the trunks ¹³ of the wingseeds that were darkened
with ichor ¹⁴ ; [264] with hollow trunks of conessi-bark trees
turned into homes for the silk-cotton trees ¹⁵ which are propagated
¹ Tel. ed., 'with the spray of liquid showers of masses of dripping honey broken by
monkeys' ; similarly the Srirangam text.
² Tel. ed., 'with lofty cocoanut-palms, betel-nut palms, palmyra-palms, tamāla-
trees, marsh date-palms, kamila-trees, iron-wood trees, nagkassar-trees, and camphor-
trees' ; similarly the Srirangam text.
³ Tel. ed., 'impenetrable with bushes of Arabian jasmines, screw-pines, mountain
ebony, bowstring-hemp, rose-apple trees, citrons, and basil ; with branches of many
jack-trees rubbed together by the wind' ; similarly the Srirangam text.
⁴ Tel. ed., 'with numbers of bowers on the river-banks filled with the cries of
gallinules' ; similarly the Srirangam text.
⁵ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text omit 'luxuriant.'
⁶ Tel. ed., 'by thronging, eager bees.'
⁷ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, 'with many spreading boughs.'
⁸ Tel. ed. omits 'in their swaying nests.'
⁹ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, 'with its edges made gray.'
¹⁰ Tel. ed., 'pollen of the expanded flowers of iron-wood trees' ; similarly the
Srirangam text.
¹¹ Tel. ed., 'bees glittering from the sinduvāra-trees, tawny with masses of pollen ;
with cloves, champaks, mahwa-trees, purging cassias, wingseeds, and kadambas' ;
similarly the Srirangam text.
¹² Tel. ed. omits 'horribly.'
¹³ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text omit 'of the trunks.'
¹⁴ Tel. ed. and Srirangam text, 'scraping the ichor-darkened cheeks.'
¹⁵ Tel. ed., 'with crooked, hollow trunks of silk-cotton trees.'