A distraction from the Coronavirus

विंशतेर्मम हस्तानां कर्तव्यं शोधनं मया ।

मुखानि दश बद्धानि हा कोरोने हतोऽस्म्यहम् ।।

Ravana says: “I have to sanitize my twenty hands, and my ten faces are tied up.  O Corona, I am finished.”

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]