[INDOLOGY] Pseudo-Kālidāsa

[Suresh Kolichala]

Here are some reverse translations :-D

https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_deities_misc/salutedawn.html

adya bhāvaya sudinam!
jīvabhūtaḥ kāla eṣaḥ . prāṇasya prāṇaḥ .
asmin svalpakāle
satyamaye tava sataḥ satyaṃ tiṣṭhati
vikāsānandena
karmaśriyā
saundaryaśobhayā .
hyastu svapnaḥ .
śvastu ābhāsaḥ .
karmakuśalatayā ācarite adya
gatadināni ānandasvapnamayāni bhavanti .
bhāvidināni āśāprabhayā jvalanti .
ataḥ sudinaṃ adya samyak bhāvaya!
eṣā uṣābhivandanā!


On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 9:14 AM Patrick Olivelle via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> There is a couple of verse in the Pitā-Putra-Saṃvāda in the Mahābhārata,
> translated by Winterniz: “Ascetic Literature in Ancient India,” *Culcutta
> Review, *October 1923: 1–21. These seem to parallel the ones cited.
>
> Patrick
>
> MBh 12.169.13–14:
>
> adyaiva kuru yac chreyo mā tvā kālo ’tyagād ayam |
> akṛteṣv eva kāryeṣu mṛtyur vai saṃprakarśati ||
> śvaḥkāryam adya kurvīta pūrvāhṇe cāparāhṇikam |
> na hi pratīkṣate mṛtyuḥ kṛtaṃ vāsya na vā kṛtam |
> ko hi jānāti kasyādya mṛtusenā nivekṣyate ||
>
> This very day do what’s good.
> Let not this moment pass you by,
> For surely death may strike you
> Even before your duties are done.
>
> Tomorow’s task today perform.
> Evening’s work finish before noon.
> For death does not wait to ask
> Whether your duties are done.
> For who knows whom death’s legions may seize today.
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> On Dec 12, 2024, at 5:51 AM, Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> Note here the interesting "reverse translations in Sanskrit" of this
> popular (untraced) "Salutation of the Dawn":
> https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_deities_misc/salutedawn.html
>
> and the following similar (also untraced) popular stanza here:
>
> https://sanskritdocuments.org/doc_z_misc_subhaashita/subhaashhita_kedar.html
>
> na kaścid api jānāti kiṃ kasya śvo bhaviṣyati |
> ataḥ śvaḥ karaṇīyāni kuryād adyaiva buddhimān ||
>
> quoted for instance in Huet's Sanskrit dictionary s.v. *śvas*
>
>
> Le 11 déc. 2024 à 21:38, Herman Tull via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>
> I think that attribution means Ed M. DeLoach offered up this supposed
> pearl of Sanskrit wisdom, but not that he was the author. The poem appears
> even earlier than the 1917 "DeLoach" version (the earliest I found was
> 1904, in the first volume of a church magazine), and in the early
> appearances it is generally attributed to "Sanskrit" not to Kalidasa
> (although this attribution appears later).
>
> I'm afraid the mystery remains. The terrible irony here is that far more
> people know Kalidasa through this fairly awful poem than they do through
> his actual works.
>
> *Herman Tull, PhD*
> *Princeton, NJ*
>
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> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 8:29 AM Valerie Roebuck via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> Thank you so much!
>>
>> Valerie J Roebuck
>> Manchester, UK
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 11 Dec 2024, at 13:14, Peter Wyzlic via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> Am 11.12.2024 um 13:29 schrieb Valerie Roebuck via INDOLOGY:
>>
>> ‘Look to this day:
>> For it is life, the very life of life.
>> In its brief course…’
>>
>> that the internet always attributes to Kālidāsa, even though it bears no
>> resemblance to his style.
>>
>> Did we ever find out where it really came from? I’m trying to convince a
>> friend, and I think it would help to be able to point to a real author.
>>
>>
>> In the magazine "The Rotarian", vol. 11, no. 4 (Oct. 1917), page 312 it
>> is attributed to Ed M. DeLoach, Oklahoma City
>> See
>> <https://books.google.de/books?id=oFgEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA299&hl=de&pg=PA312#v=onepage&q&f=false>
>> <https://books.google.de/books?id=oFgEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA299&hl=de&pg=PA312#v=onepage&q&f=false>
>>
>> Hope it helps,
>> Peter Wyzlic
>>
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