Canonical Ref: BK 11.10
Metrical Form: उपजातिः
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
तमः प्रसुप्तं मरणं सुखं नु मूर्च्छा नु माया नु मनोभवस्य । किं तत्कथं वेत्युपलब्ध-संज्ञा विकल्पयन्तोऽपि न संप्रतीयुः ॥
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Classical Exegesis
Karandikar:
‘(Was it) indeed a blacking out, or sleep, or death, or ecstacy, or unconsciousness, or a jugglery of Cupid ?’’ Thus conjecturing variously after regaining consciousness, as to what and how (it was), they did not identify (it) all the same.
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Bhaṭṭikāvyam, BK 11.10. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.