Dhanapāla's Ṛishabhapañcāśikā (a collection of 50 verses on the 1st of the 24 Seers)

    Alexander Zeugin

    Dhanapāla's Ṛishabhapañcāśikā (a collection of 50 verses on the 1st of the 24 Seers) transl. Joh. Klatt ZdMG 33 (1879)

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    Ṛishabhapañcāśikā [40 of 50]

     

    40. Your principles, O Lord, are like elephants in a closed Rows of horses (hanging on one another), surrounded by disputants (secondary meaning: by horses), drive the enemy to flight in an instant.[1]

     

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    [1] c. jjh in tujjha. The upper part of the sign looks like Devanāg. sh, as in majjha for madhya v. 49. This sign is to be read jjha, and not bbh, s. Bhag. I, 389—91; cf. Hāla p. 21 not. 2. — nayā, Comm. naigamādi-nayā. — mayā-gaya Comm. mahā-gaja, but is evidently mataṅgaja, like sīha for siṃha Hem. I, 29.