[INDOLOGY] A distraction from the Coronavirus

Wed Apr 1 13:17:26 UTC 2020

Keep up Daniel and Christian.  Daniel, your verse can be easily mistaken
for a composition of one of our classical poets.  Congratulations.

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 Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 1:03 AM Dániel Balogh via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> 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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