करोनास्पर्शचिन्तया rolls off the tongue like a fine chablis! Nabokov and maybe even Bana would be proud...Thanks Madhav!

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On Mar 18, 2020, at 9:37 AM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:



A distraction from the Coronavirus

स्वयंवरे राजकन्या वरान् दीना प्रतीक्षते ।

न कोऽपि वर आयाति करोनास्पर्शचिन्तया ।।

At the ceremony of choosing the groom, the distressed princess is waiting for grooms, but no one shows up due to worries over 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]

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