A distraction from the Coronavirus

गच्छ शूर्पणखे दूरं माऽऽयाहि मम सन्निधौ ।

कोरोनानिर्गमादूर्ध्वं पुनरागमनं कुरु ।।

Lakshmana said to Shurpanakha: “O Shurpanakha, go far away.  Don’t come near me.  Come back after the Coronavirus goes away.”

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]