[INDOLOGY] A distraction from the Coronavirus

[Christian Ferstl]

Lockdown in ancient Ayodhya:

वसिष्ठेनैतदुद्दिष्टं कोरोनासमये नृप ।
सेनापि ते गृहे तिष्ठेन्माश्वमेधं तदाहर ॥

Vasiṣṭha pointed this out: “In times of Corona, o king,
even your army should stay at home. So don’t perform a horse sacrifice!”


Christian Ferstl

University of Vienna


Am 08.04.2020 15:52, schrieb Madhav Deshpande:
> Dear Christian,
> 
> सर्वकर्माणि संन्यस्य
> फलानि सकलानि च ।
> सर्वकालं गृहस्थोऽहं
> कोरोनाभयचिन्तया ।।
> 
> Having given up all activities and their results, I have become
> permanently homebound due to concern with the danger of the
> Coronavirus.
> 
> 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 8, 2020 at 12:01 AM Christian Ferstl
> <christian.ferstl at univie.ac.at> wrote:
> 
>> एतदाश्चर्यमित्यूचुः
>> श्रमणा यात्रिणश्चैव ।
>> यत्संप्रति गृहस्थत्वं
>> सर्वलोकः समाश्रितः ॥
>> 
>> "This is astonishing", said the mendicants and pilgrims,
>> "that nowadays everyone has become a householder!"
>> 
>> Christian Ferstl
>> 
>> Am 07.04.2020 15:14, schrieb Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY:
>>> A distraction from the Coronavirus
>>> 
>>> कोरोनां भीषणां दृष्ट्वा
>>> लङ्कां त्यक्त्वा बिभीषण:
>> ।
>>> 
>>> रामेण सहितोऽयोध्यां
>>> प्रायात् सोऽपि विचक्षण:
>> ।।
>>> 
>>> Seeing the frightening Corona, the wise Bibhishana, leaving Lanka,
>>> also went to Ayodhya along with Rama.
>>> 
>>> 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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