426 ON SANSCRIT AND 



in Sanscrit and In the Pracril and provincial dialects, 

 are by far too numerous to be here specllied. 



The other poem of Cailida'sa abovementioned, 

 though entitled Cumdra sumhhava or origin of Cuma'ra 

 (who is son of Pa'rvati), closes wiih Pa'rvati's 

 wedding. It has the appearance of being incomplete : 

 and a tradition runs, that it originally consisted of 

 twenty-two books. However, it relates the birth of the 

 goddess as daughter of mount Hima'laya ; and ce- 

 lebrates the religious austerities by which she gained 

 S'ina for her husband ; alter Candarha, or Cupid, 

 had failed in inspiring S''iva with a passion for her, and 

 had perished (for the time) by the fiery wrath of the 

 god. The personages, not excepting her father, the 

 snowy mountain, are described with human manners 

 9nd the human form, and with an exact observance of 

 Indian costume. 



The following stanza from a poem in mixed lan- 

 guage, upon the same subject (the birth of Cuma'ra), 

 is selected as a further example of Upajati metre, and 

 as a specimen of the manner in which Sanscrit and 

 Pracrit are sometimes intermixed. It is quoted for 

 that purpose in the Pingala-vrilti. 



[See Plate B. Fig. 3.J 



Balah Cumarah ; sa ch'ha-mun'da-d'hari. Upaa-hina 



hamu 6cca-nan. 

 Ahar-n'is'am c'hui visham bhic'hari. Gatir bhavltri 



hamari. 



DeVi', grieving over her infant son Cuma'ra or 

 ScANDA,saySj 



** The child is an infant, but he has six mouths [to be fed] : 

 I am a helpless, solitary female : night and day my mendicant 



