Library·Nīlakaṇṭha: Mātaṅgalīlā (the play of elephants)·9·9.16
अभिलषति नगर्यामन्नपानं च चाटून् निशि च तमसि तिष्ठेदप्रगृह्यो नियन्तुः । करितुरगपदातीन् प्राप्य किञ्चिन्न मुञ्चेद् गुणितरुषमुपेतः क्रोधधीः कुञ्जरेन्द्रः
abhilaṣati nagaryāmannapānaṃ ca cāṭūn niśi ca tamasi tiṣṭhedapragṛhyo niyantuḥ | karituragapadātīn prāpya kiñcinna muñced guṇitaruṣamupetaḥ krodhadhīḥ kuñjarendraḥ
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/9.16
Cite as: Nīlakaṇṭha: Mātaṅgalīlā (the play of elephants) 9.16, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/MatL/9.16), 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.