430 DN SANSCRIT AND 



fail of purifying my voice, however faulty, when employed on 

 this narration." i. 3. 



In the following passage from EnA'RAvf's Cirata^- 

 juniya, the last stanza is an example of the Mulini 

 metre ; and the preceding one, of the Pushpitdgra ; 

 which will be noticed further on : all the rest are in the 

 Vans' ast' ha measure. It is the close of a reproachful 

 speech of DrxAUPADi to her eldest husband Yud'- 

 HisHT'"Hir.A. inciting him to break the con pact with 

 Duryod'han ^, by \\ hich tiiePA'.NDAVAS had engaged 

 to remain twelve years in exile. 



[See Plate B. Fig. 6.] 



** I do not comprehend this thy prudence; for opinions are 

 indeed various : but anguish forces itself on my mind, when 

 considering thy extreme distress. Thou, who didst formerly 

 repose on a costly couch, and wert wakened wi h au^picious 

 pi-aise and song, now sleepest on the ground strewed with 

 puncrent grass, and art roui^ed from thy slumbers by ;he dis- 

 mal bowlings of shakals. Thy feet, which, resting on afoot- 

 stool adorned with precloi>s stones, were tinged by the dust 

 of the blossoms in the chaplets worn by prostrate monarchs, 

 now tread the wilderness where the tips or sharp grass are 

 cropped by the teeth of stags. Thy person, O kin^, which 

 formerly gained beauty by feeding on the blessed r^-m.iant of 

 the feast given to holy men, now wastes with thy glory, while 

 thou feedest on the fruits of the 'brest. That thou art reduced 

 to this condition by the act of thy enemies, harrows up my 

 soul. To the valiant, whose courage is unsubdued by the 

 foe, misfortune is a triumph. Relinj^uishing peace, O king, 

 be active and jouse thy euer<:y, for the slaughter of thy foes. 

 Placid saints, not kings, attain perfection, disarming their 

 enemies by patience. If persons- such as thee, whose ho- 

 nour is their wealth, who are leaders of the brave, submit 

 to such insupportable disgrac ,then is magnanimity destroyed 

 without resource. If divested of courage, thou deem sub- 

 mission the means of lasting ease, then quit thy bow, the 

 symbol of a sovereign, and becoming a hermit, feed herewith 

 oblations the purifying flame. Adherence to the compact is 

 not good for thee, valiant prince, while thy foes compass thy 



