[Y-Indology] Rtusamharam Saradvarnanam 1

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In prosody this meter is called vasantatilakam.

The 8th syllable should be guru or long. Also there should be a pause or yati

after 8 syllables. Both these conditions are met only if it is ruchiraa.

 

P.K.Ramakrishnan

 

 

Phillip Ernest <phillip.ernest wrote: Hi group.

 

I wonder about the first verse of the Saradvarnanam in the Rtusamharam, the

first half verse of the second distich:

 

aapakvazaaliruciraa tanugaatrayaSTiH

 

Of which Manirama says:

 

aa samantaatpakvaa pariNataa zaalireva ruciraa sundaraa tanvii gaatrayaSTiH

zariiralataa yasyaaH/ pakSe aapakvasaaliriva ruciraa

tanugaatrayaSTirvapuHsaMhananaM yasyaaH/

 

Amarakirttisuri similarly interprets the phrase as a single bahuvrihi. But my

text, edited by S.R. Sehgal in 1944, prints the phrase as two words, which, it

seems to me, could grammatically work as two bahuvrihis, except that the

commentaries do not seem to support that interpretation, and the second

bahuvrihi in particular could not easily refer to sarad rather than the vadhu.

So I guess Sehgal’s text of the verse is a misprint, and should be

 

aapakvazaaliruciratanugaatrayaSTiH

 

?

 

Phillip

 

 

 

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Quoting peekayar <peekayar:

 

> In prosody this meter is called vasantatilakam.

> The 8th syllable should be guru or long. Also there should be a pause or

> yati after 8 syllables. Both these conditions are met only if it is

> ruchiraa.

 

Yes. This seems to be why the editor Sehgal has divided the compound into two

feminine bahuvrihis, even though this interpretation is at variance with the

interpretation of the two commentaries he prints. What I find mysterious is,

how these two commentators could have apparently overlooked this metrical

impossibility of their interpretation, which leaves this syllable laghu. As

well, I am also interested in knowing what other commentaries on the

Rtusamharam there are. I am iving in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, at the

moment, and the university and public libraries here do not have a very

substantial Sanskrit collection. I would as the local sanskritist Gustav

Holst, but, bless his soul, he's dead.

 

But seriously...

 

Phillip