Bhojaprabandha p32

p32

Dividing the present edition of the *Bhojaprabandha*, accompanied by the Hindi commentary entitled *Vidyotinī*, into thirty-six narrative sections seemed to offer greater comfort and convenience for reading. This is an independent endeavor of the commentator, and the naming of the narrative sections is also his own contrivance. His contrivance goes so far that in several places he has even made the unfortunate effort to present the sacred verses of the *Bhojaprabandha* in rhymed and unrhymed, metered and meterless verses. He knows very well that this is the laughable 'raising of the arms by a dwarf' toward 'fruit reachable only by the tall,' and he must be ready to endure its bad result; yet—nevertheless. Let the 'dullard' suffer the evil consequence of his craving to become 'one who seeks the fame of a poet.'