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(Asvaghosha, verse 21). —The ees looked like so ey 
heavenly cars, and the females like celestial nymphs in the 
Kalidasa bia a similar idea when he says in Raghu VI- ehis 
that the princes at the Svayamvara of togemeekt peated on stages, 
looked like so many gods seated on celestial c 
z qa HSy BApaaars RieeregyarTTs i 

aetna ARATATAT ASA MACTATTTT 
Thies aghosha, verse 22),—Crowding at the windows. LEar- 
rings in contact. Faces like so many lotuses bound into a bundle. 
Compare Kalidasa, sl. 11 above. 
s I have already seared the occasion was not one at which 
every house was expected to be over-crowded. Hence verses 1 
is not clear 
Thus, though se dias a ideas, considered i ina are 
good, they either do n t the occasion, or clash with one 
th 
another. His entire’ mile isa piece of pateh- -work pouty: rather 
omnely done up, with the seams clearly, visible. 
T @ suspicion is unavoidable’ t that the ideas are ‘borrowe d 
from Kalidasa, in whose works. they ‘all. oceur, but the context 
being different, their combination in Asvaghosha has produced a 
yo ea mass 
vaghosha, v verse 22):++Alluwere so eagerly looking at the 
prince that the females appeared as if they wanted to.go down, 
and the males as if they wanted to go 0 
‘Just now I do not recollect where I have seen this in i Kalida- 
sa, anee the idea seems to be a familia: 
aghosha, verse 23).—Seeing the beauty of the prince, the 
foniales rethi med : ow lucky must be his wif 
s aghu 13 above. Also compare pele VII. 65 :— 
wit aut garaaeyaqaa taqarty aay | 
aT TIAA Wa wet at wig aarat faqaw Many | 
The postscript in Asvaghosha Wea: SS evita 
a chaste heart and not from any other motive—is suspici 
It looks like a — at Kumara quoted above, in which the eet 
aT SMAyW, etc., does not indeed appear to be wholly innocent. 
eee too, rar altered the second half in Raghu so as to leave 
9 room any longer to doubt the motive of the females. Had 
‘Révaghoshe’ s book been before him to guide him as a model, 
s Prof. Cowell supposes it was, he would not have written 
a [wae in Kumara. This slip, and ~— subsequent 
correction in Raghu, seems to be in itself a proof that Kalidasa 
supplied the original, which Asvaghosha copied. 
