A distraction from the Coronavirus

दृश्यरूपा मया पूर्वं ताडका निहता शरै: ।

अदृश्यरूपां कोरोनां को मे बाणो हनिष्यति ।।

Rama wondered: “Previously I killed the demoness Tadaka with my arrow.  Now which arrow of mine will kill this invisible Corona?”

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]