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I suppose that just as Shikhandini was reborn as Shikhandin, Speech was born as Bana to enhance her powers as a male.*

I pay my respects to my father Nilambara, who is reckoned right after the teacher Prabhakara, after whose death righteousness and ritual have lain dormant, who was a poet like Ushanas, who is honored right after the teacher of the gods, Brihas·pati, at whose setting religion and ritual observance are reduced to a minimum, who is a deity like Shukra.*

They alone are capable of accomplishing the encylopedia of arts and skills and of displaying all segments of the moon, the lotuses’ friend: the king who is the crest-jewel of the Sena lineage and the early morning of a full-moon day.

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If their syllables are harmonious ⋮ if they show enduring friendship, if they are not harsh, if they are not uncouth, words of poetry, just like men, effectively indicate their meaning.

A blemish will not enter the heart of the good, suffused with sentiment, just as a woodworm will not enter a bamboo. But a fault-finder will not welcome even aesthetic delight, just as a man whose humors are morbidly deranged will refuse to accept even water.*