Meaning of Sanskrit? word hulAsa

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Dear list members,

 

 

(I'm using Harvard-Kyoto transliteration)

 

The word hulAsa occurs in verse 9 in some versions of the

mahiSAsuramardini attributed to rAmakRSNa kavI .

 

suralalanAtatatheyitatheyitathAbhinayottaranRtyarate

hAsavilAsahulAsamayi praNa tAtRjane'mitapremabhare |

dhimikaTadhikkaTadhikaTadhimidhvanidhIramRdaGganinAdarate

jaya jaya he mahiSAsuramardini ramyakapardini zaulasute ||

 

It doesn't occur in the Sanskrit dictionaries (Monier-Williams, Apte,

Bohtlingk-Roth)

 

But an on-line search finds it in two places:

 

1) It occurs quita a few times in Malik Muhammad Jayasi's poem in the

Awadhi language padmavat (see the link: http://hin.osaka-gaidai.ac.jp/

hindi/padmavat.txt )

 

2) It also occurs as part of a nineteenth century Hindu name " rAma

mahezvara son of hulAsa mahezvara " see:

http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/sanskrit.htm

 

Can any of the list members tell me:

 

a) What does hulAsa mean in Awadhi?

 

b) Is it unusual for words from the vernacular to find there way into

Sanskrit poetic works ?

 

c) Have any of the list members come across " hulAsa " in any

Sanskrit texts.

 

Many thanks,

Harry Spier

[Guest guest]

Dear Dr Spier,

Jay Jinendra

 

I have come across the word hulAsa, it is very likely an Apabhramsha form of

the Sanskrit word ullAsa. Hulas is a fairly common first name in

Bundelkhand. And it means " joy " . Hence, it is likely to be derived from

ullAsa.

 

M