Scilicet, in the day.
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Turbid with (a) dust; (b) passion.
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The Vishṇu Purāṇa, Bk. vi., ch. iii., mentions seven suns.
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The asterism Rohiṇī.
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Utkalikā = (a) wave; (b) longing.
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Or, hand.
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Hands.
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Feet.
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Hands.
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Candracaṇḍāla (lit., ‘base-born moon’) is intended as an assonance.
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Pūrṇapātra, a basket of gifts to be scrambled for at a wedding.
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I.e., the row of pearls given by Mahāçvetā.
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Omit, priyajanaviçvāsavacanāni.
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Read, parityaktā.
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Read, antare.
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Goçīrsha, a kind of fragrant sandal.
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V. Vishṇu Purāṇa, Bk. i., ch. iii. (For the description of Brahmā’s night.)
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Tataḥ Saindhavako rājā kshudras, tāta, Jayadrathaḥ,
Varadānena Rudrasya sarvān naḥ samavārayat.
(‘Then the vile Sindh kinglet, Jayadratha, through the boon conferred by Rudra, O my son, kept us all back.’) – Mahābhārata, vii., 2574.
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Harivaṃça, 4906.
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The cakora, or Greek partridge, was said to have its eyes turned red in the presence of poison.
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Madirā, intoxicating, bewitching; so called because her eyes were madirāḥ.
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Daksha cursed the moon with consumption at the appeal of his forty-nine daughters, the moon’s wives, who complained of his special favour to the fiftieth sister.
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Lit., ‘without cause.’
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Lit., ‘going by machinery.’
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