[INDOLOGY] A distraction from the Coronavirus

Wed Apr 1 09:13:46 UTC 2020

Sorry, found yet another typo in mine. Please read व्रजयुवतिवृन्दापरिवृतः

On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 10:31, Dániel Balogh <danbalogh at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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