Please accept this metrically more sound version of my last verse:

मानवव्याधिसंचारवर्जनार्थं स बुद्धिमान् ।
रामो लाङ्गूलिनं ह्येव किं नु लङ्कामचारयत् ॥

I am indepted to Dr. Roland Steiner for reminding me of Piṅgala's rule
na prathamāt snau according to which two light syllables are not allowed
after the very first one in a pāda.


Christian Ferstl


Am 06.04.2020 08:39, schrieb Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY:
> Übung macht den Meister - so let my try again:
>
> मानवरोगसंचारवर्जनार्थं स बुद्धिमान् ।
> रामो लाङ्गूलिनं ह्येव किं नु लङ्कामचारयत् ॥
>
> Did Rama the wise send none other than a monkey to Lanka
> in order to avoid transmission of a human disease?
>
> (Please note that I do not consider myself a paṇḍit or a kavi but
> rather a humble student of Sanskrit language and literature. I very
> much appreciate your patience with my sometimes faulty compositions as
> well as your improvements and the interesting discussions triggered by
> them.)
>
>
> Christian Ferstl
>
>
> Am 05.04.2020 15:34, schrieb Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY:
>> A distraction from the Coronavirus
>>
>> कोरोनाभयभीतोऽसौ
>> चिन्ताक्रान्तो दशानन: ।
>>
>> मुक्त्वा स जानकीं सद्यो
>> राघवं शरणं ययौ ।।
>>
>> Scared of the danger of the Coronavirus, overcome by worry, Ravana
>> freed Sita and quickly took refuge with Lord Rama.
>>
>> 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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