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.