1873.] F. S. Growse— A Metrical Version of the Prithirdj Rctsau. 333 
IY. The world, a pleasant garden-plot, 
Watered with Yedic lore, 
From good seed cast into its midst 
The plant of wisdom bore. 
Three great houghs spread, and the earth grew glad 
At the leaves’ new melody, 
While flowers of virtue swelled to fruit 
Of immortality. 
The bird-like sage quaffed the sweet juice 
Of this exquisite marvellous tree, 
With its single stem and its far-spreading houghs 
Full of glory and victory. 
In the first quatrain, the only word of any difficulty is hhugati , which 
I take to be equivalent to bhog. In the second occurs the phrase ratt chhiti. 
Here ratt is simply the past participle of the verb rang , meaning not £ red,’ 
nor even £ coloured,’ but in its secondary sense ‘ affected by love,’ like the more 
common mohit , £ charmed.’ The two words are parenthetical, and the most 
literal translation of them possible is £ earth is charmed.’ The three boughs, 
to which such frequent reference is made, can scarcely be taken to mean 
the three qualities sattva , rajas , and tamas , but indicate rather that the 
influence of religion extends over the three worlds of earth, heaven, and hell. 
In line seven, I have altered susan, apparently a mere misprint, to suman , 
not £ good thoughts,’ but £ a flower.’ In the ninth line, duja might mean 
1 twice-born ;’ but it seems a more appropriate carrying out of the allegory 
to take it in its other well-known sense of £ a bird.’ 
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