There, north of the lord of wealth's house, is ours — visible from far off by its gateway, as lovely as Indra's bow; and close beside it, inside the wall, stands a young mandāra tree that my wife brought up as an adopted son, bent low under clusters a hand can reach. **This is the stanza the poem has been walking toward.** Fourteen stanzas of Alakā have said यत्र, *where*; this one says तत्र, *there*, and then अस्मदीयम्, *ours*, and the cloud's errand stops being a journey and becomes an address. Mallinātha reads it as the start of a list: he ends the comment with इतः परं चतुर्भिः श्लोकैरभिज्ञानान्तरमाह — 'from here on, in four ślokas, he gives further tokens of recognition' — and inside this stanza he has already used अभिज्ञान twice, once for the gateway and once for the tree. The four are 2.16 to 2.19, the pool and the hill and the two trees and the perch, and 2.20 gathers them: एभिः … लक्षणैः, 'by these marks'. This stanza also ends the यत्र that has opened stanza after stanza since 2.1 — after it, no verse of the canto begins with the word again. **What he argues about is उत्तरेण.** His first reading makes it उत्तर with the affix एनप्, which Pāṇini 5.3.35 gives to उत्तर and दक्षिण only when the place is *near*, and he writes the nearness into his gloss: अदूरदेशे. That affix governs the accusative by 2.3.31 एनपा द्वितीया, which is why धनपतिगृहान् is accusative where a reader expects an ablative, and Amara's गृहाः पुंसि च भूम्न्येव explains why one house is plural. Then अथवा: or else उत्तरेण is a plain instrumental adjective of तोरणेन, 'by the gateway on the north side'. **The two readings need two different texts**, and each of them is printed somewhere: this text prints the accusative his first reading requires, and his own edition prints the ablative धनपतिगृहाद् that his second one does. The rest he glosses gently. The arch is a rainbow for two reasons at once — मणिमयत्वात्, made of gems, and अभ्रंकषत्वात्, scraping the clouds. The mandāra is a कल्पवृक्ष, the wishing-tree 2.12 ended on, only this one is small enough to reach. And the son is कृत्रिमसुतः and then, because the legal word will not do, पुत्रत्वेनाभिमन्यमानः — one regarded as a son. He names no figure.
uncheckedthe reader's reading, following Mallinātha's gloss; the two readings of उत्तरेण, the two sūtras, the Amara line for the plural of गृह, the two reasons for the rainbow, the identification of the mandāra as a wishing-tree, the gloss on कृतक, and the closing remark that four more stanzas of tokens follow are all his. That his own edition prints धनपतिगृहाद् where this text prints धनपतिगृहान् is read off the stanza standing above his comment in `vendor/meghaduta-sanjivini.itx`; that the first reading needs the accusative and the second the ablative follows from the sūtras he cites“tatrālakāyāṃ dhanapatigṛhān … “enapā dvitīyā” iti dvitīyā || “gṛhāḥ puṃsi ca bhūmny eva” ity amaraḥ || athavā “uttareṇa” iti nainappratyayāntaṃ … anenābhijñānena dūrata eva jñātuṃ śakyam … itaḥ paraṃ caturbhiḥ ślokair abhijñānāntaram āha”
There, to the north of the lord of wealth's house — Kubera's — is our own house, to be made out from far off by its gateway, which is as lovely as Indra's bow. And close beside it, in the strip inside the enclosing wall, stands a young mandāra tree, a wishing-tree, that my wife brought up as an adopted son, now bent low under flower-clusters a hand can reach. The stanza has no finite verb; Mallinātha supplies अस्ति at the very end, and reads the gateway and the tree as two अभिज्ञान, tokens by which the house is known. He ends the comment इतः परं चतुर्भिः श्लोकैरभिज्ञानान्तरमाह, 'from here on, in four ślokas, he gives further tokens', the pool and the hill and the two trees and the perch of 2.16–2.19, which 2.20 gathers up as एभिः लक्षणैः, 'by these marks'.
- Mallinātha, Sañjīvinī — 2.15, whole-verse gloss; itaḥ paraṃ caturbhiḥ ślokair abhijñānāntaram āha