composed by bhagadatta jalhaNa a minister of the seuna yAdava-s just before the coming down of the green curtain on central India
The answer was given by @pinakasena It is an exercise in saMdhi in addition to being a riddle. Ans: vI bird; ramA i.e. lakShmI; R^ik;kaTakam
@pinakasena bracelet; pitA father; vIra-markaTa-kampitA: lankA shaken by the manly monkey. This riddle marks the finese of H civilization on the eve its
@pinakasena catastrophic end @ the hands of the Meccan demons. It was being probed even as such works were being composed by the ghazi sufis equivalents
@pinakasena of today's Islamic terrorists. Such attacks were repulsed but the main assault of the army of Islam which followed overwhelmed the yAdavas
who were showing cracks from within opening the doors to rest of the peninsula.Of texts which survived the fall of devagiri we have bhAskara
's mathematics on brink of mathematical "modernity"; shAr~Ngadeva's saMgItaratnAkara & some anthologies of verses as these. That is the hint
of all that was lost in the Meccan deluge from which the H never entirely recovered. Finally, we will conclude with an etymological point at
other end of our history: The word vI: it is a cognate of avis in Greek i.e. bird. Which is of PIE provenance. It occurs in the R^igveda in
context of hunt or chase under derived word takva-vIye, from takva-vI (falcon)meaning chase with falcon. see mantra: manasataramgini.wordpress.com
this is earliest textual evidence for hunting with falcon/eagle suggesting that it was 1st initiated by IEans on the steppe& later continued
by other steppe peoples as still seen in today's Mongolia.
*correction: avis should be latin not greek
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