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Nīlakaṇṭha: Mātaṅgalīlā (the play of elephants) 1.28

MatL 1.28

त्रेतायां शीतकालोद्भव उभयचरो दुर्मना ह्रस्वकर्णो नायामी मन्दगामी हरिरुचिनयनस्तामसः कृष्णशोभः । नागः श्लेष्मप्रधानो नतविपुलरदः स्थूलवृत्ताङ्गशोभी कामी गम्भीरवेदी कथित इति बुधैर्मन्दनामा गजेन्द्रः

tretāyāṃ śītakālodbhava ubhayacaro durmanā hrasvakarṇo nāyāmī mandagāmī harirucinayanastāmasaḥ kṛṣṇaśobhaḥ | nāgaḥ śleṣmapradhāno natavipularadaḥ sthūlavṛttāṅgaśobhī kāmī gambhīravedī kathita iti budhairmandanāmā gajendraḥ

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Sanskrit only: no published translation is held for this verse.

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Cite as: Nīlakaṇṭha: Mātaṅgalīlā (the play of elephants) 1.28, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/MatL/1.28), after Trivandrum Sanskrit Series no.

Edition, numbering and licence

Trivandrum Sanskrit Series no. 10, ed. T. Gaṇapati Śāstrī, Trivandrum 1910 (public domain); scan: https://archive.org/details/TSS010MatangalilaOfNilakanthaTGSastri1910_201809. Read from the page images (printed pages 1–41; a page's image is leaf N+3 of the scan) by HREEM's reader, a language model, not by OCR — in these old prints OCR misreads most verses. Not yet proofread by a person; check any verse against the scan. Verse numbers are the edition's own, and every chapter runs without a gap. Readings the reader was unsure of: 1.5, 1.7, 1.16. Reference = paṭala.verse.

The edition is public domain. The transcription is HREEM's and is offered under CC BY 4.0; it is a machine reading awaiting a person's proofreading.

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