*You who have everything, those winds off the Snow Mountain that come down the southern road, that split the folded shoots of the deodars the same instant and smell of their running sap — those I embrace, on the chance that they may have touched your body first.*
**The stanza is an argument from a smell, and Mallinātha says so in six words.** तत्क्षीरस्रुतिसुरभयः is not decoration: **तुषाराद्रिजातत्वे लिङ्गमिदम्**, *this is the mark of their being born on the Snow Mountain*. Deodars grow where he cannot go and she is; a wind that carries their resin has come from there; so it is worth putting your arms round.
**One case costs him the longest grammatical note in the canto.** दक्षिणेन, *by the southern way*, is a third case on a road, and he has to license it: by the vārttika तृतीयाविधाने प्रकृत्यादिभ्य उपसङ्ख्यानम्, on the model of समेन धावति — *he runs by the level ground* — and because तत्रापि करणत्वस्य प्रतीयमानत्वात्, instrumentality is understood there too. The reason it needs licensing he quotes and attributes: **“कर्तृकरणयोरेव तृतीया” इति भाष्यकारः**, the third case is for agent and instrument *only*, says the author of the Bhāṣya. That is Patañjali's second appearance in the corpus, after 1.57, and his first in this canto.
**And on the main verb he stops being a commentator and starts being angry.** Winds can be touched, but they have no shape, so they cannot be embraced — and the verse says आलिङ्ग्यन्ते, *they are embraced*. The Niruktakāra had excused it: the yakṣa is out of his mind, so raving is no fault. Mallinātha's reply is **स्वयमेवोन्मत्तप्रलापीत्युपेक्षणीयः** — *he is himself a raving madman and is to be passed over*. This is the third time he takes that commentator on, after 1.48 and 2.17, and the first time he does not argue but abuses.
**The particle he let pass at 2.43 he glosses here.** किल is **सम्भावितमेतदिति बुद्ध्येत्यर्थः**, with the thought that this may be so, and he quotes Amara for the two senses the word has, वार्ता सम्भाव्ययोः किल — hearsay and possibility. He takes the second. And the conditional has no *then*: यदि opens a clause that nothing answers, because the embracing is not the consequence of the touch but of the chance of it.
**Two demonstratives, and the second is nearer.** In the third pāda the winds are ते, *those*, described from outside; in the fourth they are एभिः, *these*, the ones on his face while he speaks.
**This is the last of the four consolations he listed at 2.43**, तदङ्गस्पृष्टस्पर्श — touching what her body touched — and the stanza names it in the participle स्पृष्टम्. Four stanzas, four consolations, in the order the commentary gave them one verse before the poem began them. No figure is named.
uncheckedthe reader's reading, following Mallinātha, Sañjīvinī's gloss. His are: पल्लवपुटान् for किसलयपुटान्, क्षीरनिष्यन्दैः and सुगन्धयः with तुषाराद्रिजातत्वे लिङ्गमिदम्, दक्षिणमार्गेण for दक्षिणेन with the whole vārttika argument and the Bhāṣya line, चलिताः for प्रवृत्ताः, सौशील्यसौकुमार्यादिगुणसम्पन्ने for गुणवति, प्राक् for पूर्वम्, सम्भावितमेतदिति बुद्ध्येत्यर्थः for किल with the Amara line, आश्लिष्यन्ते for आलिङ्ग्यन्ते, and the closing rejection of the Niruktakāra. That the stanza is an argument from a smell, that the conditional has no apodosis, that the demonstrative moves from far to near, and that this is the fourth of his own four consolations, are the reader's; Pāṇini 2.3.18, 3.1.67, 4.1.6, 8.2.36 and 8.4.41 are by way of skt-data's sūtra corpus, only the first implied by him. The vārttika he quotes is not in that corpus under its own words; neither the Mahābhāṣya nor Amara's text nor any work of the Niruktakāra is in this repository, so none of those citations can be checked. The stanza printed above the comment in the copy reads पूर्वं स्पृष्टं where `text.md` prints पूर्वस्पृष्टं, and आलिङ्गयन्ते where it prints आलिङ्ग्यन्ते; his gloss agrees with `text.md` on the second and with his own stanza on the first, and `verse('2.47').variants` is empty“yakṣasyonmattatvāt pralapitam ityadoṣa iti vadan niruktakāraḥ svayam evonmattapralāpīty upekṣaṇīyaḥ”
You who have everything: those winds off the Snow Mountain that come down the southern road, that split the folded shoots of the deodars the same instant and smell of their running sap — those I embrace, on the chance that they may have touched your body first. The stanza is an argument from a smell: तत्क्षीरस्रुतिसुरभयः is तुषाराद्रिजातत्वे लिङ्गम्, the mark that the winds were born on the Snow Mountain, where deodars grow and he cannot go. One case, दक्षिणेन — a third case on a road — costs Mallinātha the longest grammatical note in the canto; and on the verb आलिङ्ग्यन्ते he stops arguing and abuses the Niruktakāra outright, स्वयमेवोन्मत्तप्रलापी, himself a raving madman. The conditional has no then — यदि opens a clause nothing answers, because the embracing is not the consequence of the touch but of its bare chance. This is the last of the four consolations he listed at 2.43, तदङ्गस्पृष्टस्पर्श, touching what her body touched, named here in the participle स्पृष्टम्. No figure is named.
- Mallinātha, Sañjīvinī — 2.47, whole-verse gloss