Another (!) Subhashita search (the trouble with ali)

[Swaminathan Madhuresan]

  In tamil classical texts, it's fairly common to compare the infidelity
of the male lover. Like bees hopping from flower to flower.
May be this is transferred to sevaAdhama - referring to the shuudra's
changing bosses (given a choice).


--- Jan Brzezinski <jankbrz at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> The trouble with ali as "bee" is, in what way does a
> bee characterize a type of sevakAdhama?
>
> A bee usually is seen positively because of its
> pleasant buzzing sound and its associations with
> flowers and honey, what to speak of the western image
> of a "busy bee."
>
> madhulobhAd yathA bhRGgaH
> puSpAt puSpAntaraM vrajet
> jJAnalobhAd tathA ziSyaH
> guror gurvantaraM vrajet
>
> It is also associated with inconstancy and fickleness
> in the erotic mood.
>
> madhupa kitavabandho mA spRzAGghriM sapatnyAH
> kucavilulitamAlAkuGkumasmazrubhir naH
> vahatu madhupatis tanmAninInAM prasAdaM
> yadusadasi viDambyaM yasya dUtas tvam IdRk (BhP
> 10.46.12)
>
> And with foolishness apparently,
>
> dvirepho barbaraH proktaH
> parapuSTaz ca ceTakaH |
> tau cAgraNyau madhor dRSTau
> yApyatA kApy ataH kim u? || GopAlacampU 1.22.47
>
> "The bumblebee is known to be a fool or blockhead,
> and the cuckoo, one maintained by others, is a lowly
> slave.
> If these two are the harbingers of the sweet season,
> then what further knavishness can we expect from it?"
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