528 Notices of works connected with Sanskrit Literature. [No. 5, 



The work has been edited from some MSS. in the Asiatic Society's 

 Library and that of the Sanskrit College. It consists of four sec- 

 tions ; the first contains a number of allegorical stanzas on various 

 moral subjects, the second a series of amatory commonplaces, the 

 third an elegy on the death of a wife,* and the fourth a number o* 

 stanzas in praise of Krishna and final liberation. The editor has 

 added a useful commentary to explain any obscure allusions or un- 

 usual words — the latter being not unfrecpuent.f The first book is 

 much the most interesting, and some of the verses might remind one 

 of the later epigrams of the Greek Anthology. We subjoin two as 

 specimens. 



" When I am dry, and overhead the summer's fiercest splendours burn, 

 To whom for succour in the drought will the faint troops of travellers turn ?" 

 To whom indeed? Oh generous lake beside the highway, on thee be 

 My choicest blessing, but my curse upon the salt and niggard sea.J 



The next re-echoes something of the bitter experience in Dante's 

 lines, " tu proverai," &c, or Johnson's " the patron and the jail." 



Unforced to watch another's door, and sue in vain with suppliant knees 

 To win a patron's churlish dole, — merrily live the jocund trees !§ 



E. B. C. 



* This elegy was printed by Bohlen as an appendix to his edition of the 

 Ritusanhara. 



t Some, as the frequent f^t%«^, ' a bee,' are, we believe, not found in any 

 dictionary. 



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