838 F. S. Growse— A Metrical Version of the Prithirdj lidsau. [No. 4, 
^f<r ^Tx i vv ii 
^sr^tr ^ i qqf ^ 11 ^ 11 
VII. Nay, good my Lord, thus quoth his spouse, 
Great bard, unblemished elf, 
Whose prayers and spells have power to win 
The love of Heaven itself, 
Hierophant of mystic lore, 
Charm of the courtly throng, 
Like to a child in untaught play 
Lisping divinest song ; 
In faith pronounce one holy name 
(For faith and love make wise), 
’Tis Brahma’s self; no dregs of eld 
Deem then thy melodies. 
There can be no question as to the meaning which the first line is 
intended to convey, hut it seems impossible grammatically to extract that 
meaning from it, if the word sama be retained. I have altered it to mama. 
In the second line also, I have made a change by substituting tan for 
tant; it now corresponds precisely with the third line of the preceding 
doha ; and a repetition of the kind, after a change of metre, is a very favorite 
artifice with Hindi poets. The erroneous reading of tant is due to its 
occurring at the commencement of the very next line, where it caught the 
copyist’s eye. In the third quatrain, I have introduced two emendations ; 
first by combining ho and vid into one word hovid , ‘ wise ;’ and secondly, by 
joining hahiya with the following negative, and so converting it into the 
plural form habiyan. The words habbiya and uchisht have already been 
commented upon. 
VIII. W 1 ^ I 
w qDmr vv Vk i ^ ^ i 
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former ^TT% I sfsf i 
i *tk ^ n 
f?r 1 % sr^j f i spErar I 
sreifa 1 i ii c:ii 
VIII. The prose translation : 
“ To his wife saitli the bard Chand, muttering soft and low, that true word of 
Brahm, purifier of all others , itself pure, that word which has no form, stroke, 
letter, or colour, unshaken, unfathomable, boundless, purifier of all things in the three 
worlds, that word of Brahma let me expound, the glory of the Gurus, pleasing to Saras- 
vati, if in the arrangement of my phrases I should succeed, it will be pleasing to thee, 
O lotus-faced one.” 
