Re: [INDOLOGY] A Purāṇic myth on Nārada and Urvaśī

[Jean-Luc Chevillard]

Another possiblility is to use the 1939 translation
by V R Ramachandra Dikshitar
(with a preface by Jules Bloch)
freely available at

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201802
[my downloading URL was]
https://ia801502.us.archive.org/31/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.201802/2015.201802.The-Silappadikaram.pdf

(file size 42 Mb)


Details concerning the story are given on page 113/409 of the PDf
(which is the page numbered 97 in teh 1939 book)

Cheers

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On 31/01/2017 14:19, Manu Francis via INDOLOGY wrote:
> Dear Omar,
>
> This is from the Cilappatikāram.
> See here for a translation: https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0143031961
> pp. 34 and 57
>
> ---
>
> Emmanuel Francis
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> 2017-01-31 9:21 GMT+01:00 Omar Abu Dbei via INDOLOGY
> <indology at list.indology.info <mailto:indology at list.indology.info>>:
>
>     Dear Professors and Collegues,
>
>
>     my name is Omar Abu Dbei and I am currently a PhD student under the
>     supervision of Raffaele Torella in Rome.
>     While consulting Vettam Mani’s ////Purāṇ/ic Encyclopaedia/, I have
>     found a reference, under the entry /Urvaśī /(pp. 812-813), to a
>     mythical episode that might be, under many respects, of the greatest
>     interest for my research:
>
>     /Once Agastya went to the durbar of Indra. On the occasion Indra
>     asked Urvaśī to dance. In the midst of the dance she saw Jayanta,
>     the son of Indra, and became amorous and her steps went wrong.
>     Nārada who was playing his famous lute called Mahatī could not play
>     well. Agastya went angry and cursed Jayanta to become a bud. He
>     cursed Nārada also. So his lute became the lute of the world. Urvaśī
>     was born on the earth under the name Mādhavī due to the curse/.
>
>
>
>     Unfortunately, no Sanskrit source is recorded and, not being a
>     specialist myself in the field of /Purāṇa/s, I have been unable so
>     far to find any possible one. Is there anybody who knows the exact
>     source of this myth?
>
>
>     Many thanks for your attention.
>
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>
>     Omar Abu Dbei
>
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