[INDOLOGY] A distraction from the Coronavirus

Wed Apr 1 08:31:44 UTC 2020

And thanks in turn for your correction (sent privately): sandhi should
apply at the end of the third pāda, so  read अविकृतो in my latest.
Best,
Dan

On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 10:18, Christian Ferstl <christian.ferstl at univie.ac.at>
wrote:

> Thanks, Dániel,
>
> for the suggestion which came in exactly while I was improving the
> stanza.
> Applause for your śikhariṇī stanza, shabash!
>
> Best
> Christian
>
>
> Am 01.04.2020 10:03, schrieb Dániel Balogh via INDOLOGY:
> > Good one, Christian. May I suggest निश्चयः instead of
> > प्रत्ययः so you avoid the pr licence?
> >
> > Correcting the silly mistake in my previous one:
> > तत्क्षणात्.
> > And trying a slightly more ambitious one:
> >
> > निराशो ऽभूत्कृष्णो
> > व्रजयुवतिवृण्दापरिवृतः
> >
> > सभायां शून्यायां किमिव
> > करणीयं सुरपतेः।
> >
> > विकारं यातं
> > धिग्जगदखिलमेकस्त्वविकृतः
> >
> >
> > यथापूर्वं ह्यास्ते
> > शिखरिशिखरे स्थाणुरजने॥
> >
> > Krishna is depressed, because he is not surrounded by a flock of Braj
> > girls. Whatever can Indra do with the assembly hall empty? Damn this
> > whole world in its sorry state - but one is unchanged: as ever, Shiva
> > remains on his unpeopled mountaintop.
> >
> > On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 08:46, Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY
> > <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >
> >> Excellent proof for the pureness of Sita:
> >>
> >>
> > कोरोणाव्याध्यसंक्रान्ता
> >> सीतादेवी निरामया ।
> >> तन्न स्पृष्टा हि
> >> लङ्कायाम् इति रामस्य
> >> प्रत्ययः ॥
> >>
> >> Sita was well and not infected by the Corona virus,
> >> so she was surely not touched in Lanka - this was Ramas conviction.
> >>
> >> Christian
> >>
> >> Am 01.04.2020 00:48, schrieb Elliot Stern via INDOLOGY:
> >>> सुभाषितमेव
> >>>
> >>>> On Mar 31, 2020, at 4:23 PM, Joanna Jurewicz via INDOLOGY
> >>>> <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I agree! Excellent!
> >>>>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>
> >>>> Prof. dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz
> >>>> Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia
> >>>> Wydział Orientalistyczny / Faculty of Oriental Studies
> >>>> Uniwersytet Warszawski /University of Warsaw
> >>>> ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
> >>>> 00-927 Warszawa , Poland
> >>>> Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages
> >>>> College of Human Sciences
> >>>> UNISA
> >>>> Pretoria, RSA
> >>>> Member of Academia Europaea
> >>>> https://uw.academia.edu/JoannaJurewicz
> >>>>
> >>>> wt., 31 mar 2020 o 14:26 Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY
> >>>> <indology at list.indology.info> napisał(a):
> >>>>
> >>>> Excellent verses, Christian and Dániel.
> >>>>
> >>>> Madhav M. Deshpande
> >>>> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
> >>>> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> >>>> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
> >>>>
> >>>> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:16 AM Dániel Balogh via INDOLOGY
> >>>> <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> OK, can't resist getting on the bandwagon.
> >>>> A little continuation to Christian's excellent earlier one about
> >>>> Damayantī's svayaṃvara.
> >>>>
> >>>> देवो वा मनुजो वेति
> >>>> च्छन्ने वक्त्रे
> >>>> किमन्तरम्।
> >>>> दृष्टेरनिमिषायास्तु
> >>>> विजानीमहि तत्क्षणाद्॥
> >>>>
> >>>> "God or man? What's the difference when their face is covered?"
> >>>> "But we can tell right away by their unblinking gaze."
> >>>>
> >>>> Daniel
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 08:53, Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY
> >>>> <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >>>> Here's an other one with a face mask:
> >>>>
> >>>> कोरोणाया भयात्सीता
> >>>> पद्मदलमुखावृतिः ।
> >>>> सुवर्णमृगमेवैच्छच्
> >>>> चीनपैंगोलिनं न तु ॥
> >>>>
> >>>> Out of fear of the Corona virus Sita, wearing a lotus leaf face
> >>>> mask,
> >>>> wanted a golden deer - not a Pangolin from China.
> >>>>
> >>>> Christian Ferstl
> >>>>
> >>>> Am 30.03.2020 22:58, schrieb Joanna Jurewicz:
> >>>>> Oh, I love this with mask, Christian. Frankly speaking, I enjoy
> >>>> all of
> >>>>> them.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> And I am amazed by the discussion these poems incited.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Well, this is a perennial problem: Is poetry is free from rules
> >> or
> >>>>> not? Is there room for any innovation? For bold breaking rules?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> With best wishes to all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 3.062.14a     sómo asmábhyaṃ dvipáde
> >>>>> 3.062.14b     cátuṣpade ca paśáve
> >>>>> 3.062.14c     anamīvā́ íṣas karat
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I would not dare to compose the poems in Sanskrit. The only
> >>>> language I
> >>>>> can do that is Polish.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Joanna
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Prof. dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Wydział Orientalistyczny / Faculty of Oriental Studies
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Uniwersytet Warszawski /University of Warsaw
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 00-927 Warszawa , Poland
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages
> >>>>>
> >>>>> College of Human Sciences
> >>>>>
> >>>>> UNISA
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Pretoria, RSA
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Member of Academia Europaea
> >>>>>
> >>>>> https://uw.academia.edu/JoannaJurewicz
> >>>>>
> >>>>> pt., 27 mar 2020 o 08:09 Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY
> >>>>> <indology at list.indology.info> napisał(a):
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Face masks would indeed be a problem at Damayantī's
> >>>> svayaṃvara:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> वरागतानां देवानां
> >>>>>> दमयन्त्याः स्वयंवरे ।
> >>>>>> न विशेषो ऽभवत् तेषां
> >>>>>> मुखचन्द्रकछादनात् ॥
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> But the gods were the same to Damayantī anyway.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Best,
> >>>>>> Christian Ferstl
> >>>>>> University of Vienna
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Am 26.03.2020 23:21, schrieb Valerie Roebuck:
> >>>>>>> Dear talented colleagues
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I am enjoying these topical verses so much. If only we had a
> >>>>>>> miniaturist who could portray these scenes, perhaps with the
> >>>> hero
> >>>>>> and
> >>>>>>> heroine wearing face masks!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Valerie Roebuck
> >>>>>>> Manchester, UK
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On 26 Mar 2020, at 19:59, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY
> >>>>>>>> <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> 👏👏👏
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Madhav M. Deshpande
> >>>>>>>> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
> >>>>>>>> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> >>>>>>>> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:30 PM Christian Ferstl
> >>>>>>>> <christian.ferstl at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> And Arjuna says to Draupadi --
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> करो न स्पर्शतु ह्यद्य
> >>>> तव
> >>>>>>>>> पद्मोपमं करम् ।
> >>>>>>>>> करोनाख्यातरक्षो ऽसौ
> >>>>>>>>> कामदेवेन हन्यताम् ॥
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Today my hand must not touch your lotus-like hand.
> >>>>>>>>> That demon called Corona must be killed by the God of Love!
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> It seems I'm kind of infected by Prof. Deshpande's
> >>>> karona-kāvya
> >>>>>>>>> virus.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Christian Ferstl
> >>>>>>>>> University of Vienna
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Am 26.03.2020 15:23, schrieb Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY:
> >>>>>>>>>> Draupadi says to Arjuna -
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> मत्स्यं मा विद्ध्य
> >>>>>>>>>> कोन्तेय भविता न
> >>>>>> स्वयंवर:
> >>>>>>>>> ।
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>> कोरोनानिर्गमादूर्ध्वं
> >>>>>>>>>> पुनरायाहि सत्वरम् ।।
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> O Arjuna, don’t shoot the fish [with your arrow, to prove
> >>>>>> that
> >>>>>>>>> you
> >>>>>>>>>> are the best archer], since the ceremony of choosing the
> >>>> groom
> >>>>>>>>> will
> >>>>>>>>>> not be happening. After the Coronavirus goes away, please
> >>>> come
> >>>>>>>>> back
> >>>>>>>>>> quickly.
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Madhav M. Deshpande
> >>>>>>>>>> Professor Emeritus, Sanskrit and Linguistics
> >>>>>>>>>> University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
> >>>>>>>>>> Senior Fellow, Oxford Center for Hindu Studies
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> [Residence: Campbell, California, USA]
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