[INDOLOGY] Six calamities

[Madhav Deshpande]

Having experienced terrifying wildfires in California, I wonder why this
list of ईतिs did not include something like दावानल.  Were such wildfires
not that common in ancient India?

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, Oct 14, 2020 at 9:47 AM Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Thank you much, dear Peter, for the reference.
> Now I can add the following article  by F. Wilhelm in IT, precisely on the
> topic ("Calamities - a dharma problem?) :
>
> http://www.asiainstitutetorino.it/Indologica/volumes/vol23-24/vol23-24_art38_WILHELM.pdf
> Anyway, the śloka below (also quoted in a commentary to the final stanza
> of Mālavikāgnimitra, according to Wilhelm) must be earlier than its
> occurrence in the Kṛtyakalpataru and Vīramitrodaya digests.
> bw
> Christophe
>
> Le 14 oct. 2020 à 12:05, Peter Wyzlic via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>
> Am 14.10.2020 um 11:42 schrieb Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY:
>
> From which (nīti?)śāstra
> could come the following śloka about the six 'īti' :
>
> ativṛṣṭir anāvṛṣṭir  mūṣikāḥ śalabhāḥ śukāḥ |
> pratyāsannāś ca rājānaḥ  ṣaḍ eta ītayaḥ smṛtāḥ ||
>
> PW gives a slightly different version with a reference to Parāśara,
> according to the Śabdakalpadruma
> ativṛṣṭir anāvṛṣṭiḥ śalabhā mūṣikāḥ khagāḥ
> pratyāsannāś ca rājānaḥ ṣaḍ eta ītayaḥ smṛtāḥ ..  Parāśara  im Śkdr.
>
>
> Hartmut Scharfe in his "The State in Indian Tradition" (Leiden: Brill,
> 1989, p. 69) refers to Kṛtyakalpataru and Vīramitrodaya. In this list we
> find: deluge, drought, rats, locusts, parrots and kings that are too near
> [to their subjects] (and thus able to satisfy their greed). He refers, too,
> to an older list of calamities in the Arthaśāstra.
>
> Hope it helps,
> Peter Wyzlic
>
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