1873.] F. S. Growse— A Metrical Version of the Prithiraj Hasan. 337 
mara-Charita, has still less claim than the Bhoja-prabandha to be considered 
a poem ; since unlike most Sanskrit literature it is entirely in prose. 
The style, however, is sufficiently elaborate to make it ordinarily included 
among the Kav} T as. 
In line twenty, an alteration required by the metre is equally essential 
for the sense : kitti, with the last syllable long, being when so spelt the past 
participle of the word Jcarna, £ to make,’ must be corrected to kitti, with the 
last syllable short, a corruption of kirti, ‘ fame.’ Gayam also should be 
translated as the verb £ sung,’ rather than as equivalent to git a, ‘ a song.’ 
In the twenty-second line, habbi cannot possibly be taken as a deri¬ 
vative from the root hu , £ to sacrifice ;’ it is far more natural to connect it 
with hava , ‘ love and dalliance.’ In the last line, I take uchishti as a 
substitute for uchchhishta , corresponding to the Hindi jlmthd, £ the frag¬ 
ments of a feast.’ 
VI. 
^ i ^rr ?x I 
cf«T | ^ift tl € II 
VI. Hearing Chand rate his art so low, 
His lovely consort cries: 
O pure and all unblemished bard, 
Skilled in rare harmonies. 
Here uchisht must of course be taken, as at the end of the last stanza, 
to denote something utterly low and vile. In the third line tan pavitra 
is rather £ pure of body’ than £ purifier of the body,’ and pdvan, with 
precisely the same meaning, is added simply for the sake of emphasis. 
VII. I 
efi^t ^T«T I <T*T ’TR'T ^ | 
rfcT *irT I II 
cfcT ^Tjrf | ^ I 
| II 
VI. The prose translation : 
“ The speech in verse of Chand, excellent, hearing him utter, his wife says, 
Purifier of the body, O poet, uttering excellent speech.” 
VII. The prose translation : 
“ Saith the wife to her husband : Purifier of offspring, great poet, uttering spells 
and charms, lilce an oblation offered to Devi, hero of spells, very terrible, giving 
pleasure to kings by thy poetry : the childish sports one by one of the gods having 
extolled in thy poems, having uttered unchecked speech,/rom which to me comes wisdom, 
that word which is the visible form of Brahm, why should nut the best of poets speak 
it ?” 
