Library·Nīlakaṇṭha: Mātaṅgalīlā (the play of elephants)·8·8.7
शून्यप्रियः कुणपलोहसमानगन्धो भ्रान्तो निशासु विचरन् घनानिस्वनश्च । पर्वस्वतीव परिकुप्यति यश्च मूढ- स्तं सूरयो गजमुशन्ति पिशाचसत्त्वम्
śūnyapriyaḥ kuṇapalohasamānagandho bhrānto niśāsu vicaran ghanānisvanaśca | parvasvatīva parikupyati yaśca mūḍha- staṃ sūrayo gajamuśanti piśācasattvam
Machine-read from page scans and awaiting a person's proofreading; treat the text as provisional.
Sanskrit only: no published translation is held for this verse.
Permanent address: hreem.cc/library/MatL/8.7
Cite as: Nīlakaṇṭha: Mātaṅgalīlā (the play of elephants) 8.7, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/MatL/8.7), after Trivandrum Sanskrit Series no.
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.