IndoIranian Series Author:Columbia University General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: Columbia University Press Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com whe... more »re you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE SURYASATAKA OF MAYURA TEXT AND TRANSLATION jambharatlbhakumbhodbhavam iva dadhatah sandrasindura- renum raktah sikta ivaughair udayagiritatldhatudharadravasya ayantya tulyakalam kamalavanaruceva 'runa vo vibhutyai bhuyasur bhasayanto bhuvanam abhinava bhanavo bhana- viyah The1 new rays of Bhanu (Surya) bear dense particles of vermilion like that [which] appears on the frontal globes of the elephant2 of (Indra), Foe of Jambha,2 And are red as if moistened by floods of the liquid of the stream of metals on the slope of the Mountain of Sunrise,4 And glow as if with the luster of the clusters of lotus -- a luster that appears simultaneously [with the advent of the sun].5 May these rays of Bhanu (Surya), which illumine the earth, exist for your welfare2! Notes, 1. This stanza is quoted in the Paddhati of Sarngadhara, 4. 51 (no. 137 of the edition by Peter Peterson, Bombay, 1888; cf. the partial edition by Th. Aufrecht in ZDMG, vol. 27, p. 70) ; in the Rasikafivana (book 1, stanza 32), an alamkara Sanskrit work by Gadadhara (cf. Th. Aufrecht, Catalogus Catalogorum, vol. 1, p. 497, and vol. 2, p. 116), partially edited from manuscript no. 217 of the Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, with French translation, by P. Regnaud, under the title Stances Sanskrites Inedites (published in Annuaire de la Faculte des Lettres de Lyon, fasc. 2, Litttrature et Philologie, p. 217, Paris, 1884) ; and in the modern anthology, Subhafitaratnabhandagara, p. 40, stanza 1 1 (ed. byK. P. Parab, 3d ed., Bombay, 1891). 2. The painting of elephants for purposes of adornme...« less