Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Vikramāṅkadevacarita 6.35

अभिसरणपरा सदा वराकी समरमहाध्वसु रक्तपिङ्गलेषु ।
हृदि धरणिभुजामियं नृपश्रीर्निहितपदैव कलङ्कमातनोति ॥


The bitch is always running to meet her next lover on the blood-stained fields of battle. The second her foot enters a king's heart, Success leaves an ugly stain.

See Whitney Cox, “Scribe and script in the Cālukya West Deccan,” The Indian Economic and Social History Review 47.1 (2010): 1–28.


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