Ryder

THE BETTER PART Is there no splendid Himalayan height   Cooled by the spray from Ganges' holy springs, With rocks where fairies now and then alight,   That men should fawn upon contemptuous kings?

Tawney

Say, whither are those slabs of stone   All moist with Ganga's dew. And Dryad-haunted thickets flown,   That men can bear to sue For alms and insults at the door of some proud _parvenu_?

Mādhavānanda

  गङ्गातरङ्गकणशीकरशीतलानि     विद्याधराध्युषितचारुशिलातलानि ।   स्थानानि किं हिमवत: प्रलयं गतानि     यत्सावमानपरपिण्डरता मनुष्या: ।।२४।। 24. Ah! is it that those Himalayan solitudes, cooled by the spray of minute bits of Gaṅgā’s waves and abounding in beautiful rocky flats such as are the haunts of the Vidyādharas, are all engulfed in destruction, that men in disgrace hang on others for their maintenance? [कण and शीकर have much the same sense. For कण some read हिम, meaning cold. The Vidyādharas are unearthly beings with super-human skill in arts, specially music.]

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गङ्गातरङ्गकणशीकरशीतलानि

विद्याधराध्युषित चारुशिलातलानि ।

स्थानानि कि हिमवतः प्रलयं गतानि

यत्सावमानपरपिण्डरता मनुष्याः ॥ ७० ॥

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LXX . ( a ) यत्सा ; येना ०. A. यत्स्या ०. M. रता ; गता . A.

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St. LXX . कणशीकर = कणास्तेषामपि शीकराः भव्यपकणा : ( Ramarshi . )

As to Vidyâdharas haunting the Himalaya see Kumara . cantos I

and VI . ETF quedam … Cal :; add : ( Râmarshi ) .- Vasantatilaká .

Gopinath1914

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Gopinath1896

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गङ्गातरङ्गकणशीकरशीतलानि

विद्याधराध्युषितचारुशिलातलानि ।

स्थानानि किं हिमवतः प्रलयं गतानि

यत् सावमानपर पिण्डरता मनुष्याः ॥ २३८ ॥

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238 { V } Om . in BORI 326 , BORI 329 and Punjab 2101 . a ) C

-कर- ; Xit -गण- ; Y1 -भव- ; Y ? Tic.v. -घन- ; G 1 M1.2 - हिम ( for -कण - ) . A2 om .

wrongly the second păda . c ) A सानूनि ( for स्थानानि ) . ( d a ) B येनापमान - ; C Fa

येनावमान ; F1 यच्छोचमान ; It यत्सावधान ; Ic यत्सेव्यमान ; J1 यत्साधुमान J1 J1 M + तरा

( for -रता ) .

BIS . 2053 ( 807 ) Bhartr . ed . Bohl . 3. 25. Haeb . and Galan . 22. lith . ed . I.

33 , II . 63 ; SRE . p . 97.8 ; SRK . p . 78. 3 ( ST . ) .