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 unfrequent.t 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 Bolden as an appendix to his edition of the 
Ritusanhara. 
t Some, as the frequent * a bee,’ are, we believe, not found in any 
dictionary. 
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