ENTERING ANOTHER'S BODY. 33 



coUyrium to resemble milk ;" a cloud to look like camphor " — when 

 the parrot was asked by the queen to supply the missing fourth 

 verse, he answered — " a great man through his influence contrives 

 to make." 



6. Another gudhacatiirtliaka. — " Even sin assumes the nature of 

 virtue ; even poison acts as nectar ; even enemies may become 

 friends " — when the parrot thus asked the queen to supply the 

 missing fourth verse she answerd — " when destiny is favorable to 

 men.""* 



7. Riddle on the letter a. — " Even a beggar (krpana) is fit to be 

 honored by a king (by lengthening the interior a of krpana to a so 

 as to make it krpana, 'sword'); even the noble (udara) is beset 

 with greed (by shortening the o of udara to a, so as to make it 

 udara, 'belly') ; by whose presence or absence even he who is ad- 

 dressed by name (akhyata) is not known (akhyata)." When the 

 parrot was thus questioned he answered: — "The letter a (akarah)." 



S. Riddle on the Syllable dhi(k), or dhtkkdra, Treated as dhi- 

 kkdra. — "With (the prefixed syllable) a it expresses sorrow (adhi) ; 



It should be printed as follows : 

 mrnalabham ahivyuham anjanam ksirasannibham | 

 nabhah karpnrasamkagam — rajfiya gudhacaturthake 

 iti prste gukah praha — karoti yagasa mahan || 219 || 

 doso 'pi gunatam yati visam apy amrtayate | 

 mitrani gatravo 'pi syuh — 



iti gukena gudhacaturthake prste rajni caturthapadam praha — 

 anukule vidhau nrnam 1 1 220 1 1 



For this kind of entertainment see Zachariae in " Gurupujakaumudl," 

 pp. 38ff. 



"3 See Bohtlingk's " Indische Spriiche," 7568: nanjanam guklatam yati, 

 and cf. ibid., 2146. 



"-1 " When destiny is favorable to men " = anukule vidhau nrnam. The 

 sentiment of this speech is expressed from the opposite point of view in 

 Pargvanatha, 2. 792-3 : 



pratikule vidhau kimva sudhapi hi visayate, 

 rajjuh sarpibhaved akhubilam patalatarh vrajet. 

 tamayat'e prakago 'pi gospadarh sagarayate, 

 satyarh kutayate mitrarh gatrutvena nivartate. 



" When fate is adverse nectar turns to poison, a rope turns serpent, a 

 mole-hole leads to inferno. Light turns darkness, a puddle in the footstep 

 of a cow turns ocean; truth becomes guile, and friendship vanishes in hos- 

 tility." Cf. Bohtlingk, " Indische Spriiche," nr. 4226. 



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