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.’