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sloka3 kAmabhAssThalasAraSreesouDHA asou ghanvApikAh sArasAravapeenA sarAgAkArasubhooribhooh The city of Ayodhya, abounding in mansions, the abodes of riches and splendour and of people,whose desires are fulfilled. is the land of deep wells and the cooing of saarasa birds and of red coloured earth or of red gold. kAmabhAh means shining with the

ardour caused by Manmatha, according to the commentary of the author who explains the word as kAmasya bhAH=manmatThasya thejaH, thasya sThalabhoothAh. As this may create a false notion about the people of Ayodhya it could be translated as the place where all the desires.kAma are satisfied. sAraSree may be construed to mean all the riches essential for life. souDHA means a mansion while asou means this, Ayodhya. vApee is a well ghanavapee implies the place which has deep wells. sarasaravapeenA

- sArasa (bird)+Arava (sound) +peenA ( meaning a lot of cooing sound, peena literally meaning stout), denotu ing the city which is filled with the cooing of sArasa birds. sarAgAkArasubhooribhooH- sarAga, with raga or red colour + AkAra, form +subhoori, may mean gold or simply rich colour.Bhooh is the land or earth and means the city of Ayodhya which is either of red coloured earth or rich with redcoloured gold, as subhoori may also mean rich as bhoori means abundance. The sloka in reverse order bhooribhoosurakAgArAsanA peevarasArasA kA api va anaghasouDHa asou

SreerasalasThabhAmakA The houses of Dvaraka are having raised platforms for doing rituals and hence full of brahmins.The lotuses blossoming there are large.The city has mansions without blemishes and it shines with mango trees on the top of which the sun was visible. bhoori+bhoosuraka+agArAsanA -abounding in brahmins around the dais of ritual. peevara+ big,sarasa=lotus. peevarasrasa denotes that which has big lotuses, that is the city of Dvaraka. anaghasoudHA- agha is fault and anagha means faultless, souDHA is mansion. asou= this, (Dvaraka) SreerasAlasTHa - Sree=glory or beauty, rasAla is mango tree,

Bhamaka is the Sun,SreersalasThabhAmaka means that the Sun was on the mangotrees, implying that the trees are very tall. Dr. Saroja Ramanujam, M.A., Ph.D, Siromani in sanskrit. web address: http://www.geocities.com/sarojram18 http://freewebs.com/gitaclass

 

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