> 24 carrot gold

While everyone will show understanding and keep politely silent if someone makes minor mistakes in his first attempts at composing Sanskrit verses, it is difficult to understand why a director in the Indic Academy and renowned expert in Sanskrit matters would rate a verse containing sparśatu with 24-carat gold - if “carrot” was not intended to express clandestine sarcasm.
With how many carrots would he have scored, let’s say, spṛśatu?

Regards,
WS


Am Fr., 27. März 2020 um 02:53 Uhr schrieb Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>:
Good poetry, Christian-ji. 24 carrot gold. 

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 1:01 AM Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> 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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BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra
BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala
BoS Veda Vijnana Gurukula, Bengaluru.
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