प्रास्ताविकविलासः ।
१५
जठरज्वलनज्वलताप्यपगतशङ्कं समागतापि पुरः ।
करिणामरिणा हरिणा हरिणाली हन्यतां नु कथम् ॥ ४९ ॥
येन भिन्नकरिकुम्भविस्खल-
न्मौक्तिकावलिभिरञ्चिता मही |
अद्य तेन हरिणान्तिके कथं
कथ्यतां नु हरिणा पराकमः ॥ ५० ॥
स्थिति नो रे दृध्याः क्षणमपि मदान्धेक्षण सखे
गजश्रेणीनाथ त्वमिह जटिलायां वनञुवि ।
असौ कुम्भिभ्रान्त्या खरनखरविद्रावितमहा-
गुरुग्रावग्रामः स्वपिति गिरिगर्भै हरिपतिः ॥ ५१ ॥
to be the skirt of the sporting ground of the lion.
scattered over with pearls from the temples of excellent
elephants that were broken open.
How can a herd of deer. that has fearlessiy
come near him in front, be killed by the lion, the
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enemy of elephants, even though he is being consumed
with the fire in his stomach (i. e. he is frightfully
hungry )?
50 How can the lion, who adorned the earth with
heaps of pearls dropping down from the rent-up temples
of elephants, to-day speak about his valour before
the deer ?
51 Friend, 1lord of the herd of elephants, blind
with intoxication, do not linger even for a moment in
this dense forest-region; ( for ) there, in the cave of
the mountain, sleeps the mighty lion who has torn un
a large number of mountain-boulders with his sharp
talons, thinking them to be elephants !