Volume 2 / Book 2 — Chapter XI.
C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation
Story of king Chaṇḍamahásena.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · Not Vásuki, but his eldest brother.Note 2 · Chháyá means “colour;” he drank their colour, i. e., made them pale. It also means “reflection in the wine.”Note 3 · i. e., given by Buddha.Note 4 · The four Upáyas or means of success are sáman, negotiation, which his pride would render futile, dána, giving, which appeals to avarice, bheNote 5 · The chief vices of kings denounced by Hindu writers on statecraft are: Hunting, gambling, sleeping in the day, calumny, addiction to women, Note 6 · Sudhádhauta may mean “white as plaster,” but more probably here “whitened with plaster” like the houses in the European quarter of the “CityNote 7 · A linga of Śiva in Ujjayiní. Śiva is here compared to an earthly monarch subject to the vyasana of roaming. I take it, the poet means, UjjayNote 8 · Cp. the way in which Kandar goes in search of a sword in Prym and Socin’s Syrische Märchen, p. 205.Note 9 · Dr. Brockhaus translates it—Stürzte den Wagen des Königs um. Can Syandana mean horses, like magni currus Achilli? If so, áhatya would mean, Note 10 · Rasa means nectar, and indeed any liquid, and also emotion, passion. The pun is of course most intentional in the original.Note 11 · Cp. the story of Ohimé in the “Sicilianische Märchen” collected by Laura von Gonzenbach where Maruzza asks Ohimé how it would be possible toNote 12 · There is in this land a city named Ujjayiní, the ornament of the earth, that, so to speak, laughs to scorn with its palaces of enamelled whiNote 13 · In the meanwhile the ambassador, sent by the king of Vatsa in answer to Chaṇḍamahásena’s embassy, went and told that monarch his master’s reNote 14 · Then the king rejoiced on hearing this report from the scouts, and he gave them a hundred thousand gold pieces by way of reward. The king spNote 15 · In the meanwhile the men who had accompanied the king returned to Kauśámbí, and the country, hearing of the captivity of the monarch, was th