Or, to be preferred metrically:

रक्षिताः संवृताश्चैवेत्यश्वयाजेरसंभवः ॥  

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 17:32, Jan E.M. Houben <jemhouben@gmail.com> wrote:

Alternatively for the second line: 

रक्षिताः संवृताश्चैवेत्यश्वक्रतोरसंभवः ॥

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 16:43, Christian Ferstl via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Thanks to

a private note sent by Prof. Eli Franco, I change the last pāda to:
vājimedho nv asaṃbhavaḥ, or even: hayamedhaṃ nu mā kṛthāḥ, which makes
Vasiṣṭha's words sound more archaic, doesn't it?


Christian

Am 10.04.2020 08:01, schrieb Christian Ferstl:
> And Vasiṣṭha pointed out another problem:
>
> कोरोनासमये राजन् राष्ट्रसीमाः समन्ततः ।
> रक्षिताः संवृताश्चैव वाजिमेधो न संभवः ॥
>
> “In times of Corona, o king, the borders of your reign are all guarded
> and closed. A horse sacrifice is not possible.”
>
>
> Am 09.04.2020 11:18, schrieb Christian Ferstl:
>> Lockdown in ancient Ayodhya:
>>
>> वसिष्ठेनैतदुद्दिष्टं कोरोनासमये नृप ।
>> सेनापि ते गृहे तिष्ठेन्माश्वमेधं तदाहर ॥
>>
>> Vasiṣṭha pointed this out: “In times of Corona, o king,
>> even your army should stay at home. So don’t perform a horse
>> sacrifice!”
>>
>>
>> Christian Ferstl
>>
>> University of Vienna
>>
>>
>> Am 08.04.2020 15:52, schrieb Madhav Deshpande:
>>> Dear Christian,
>>>
>>> सर्वकर्माणि संन्यस्य
>>> फलानि सकलानि च ।
>>> सर्वकालं गृहस्थोऽहं
>>> कोरोनाभयचिन्तया ।।
>>>
>>> Having given up all activities and their results, I have become
>>> permanently homebound due to concern with the danger of the
>>> Coronavirus.
>>>
>>> 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]
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:01 AM Christian Ferstl
>>> <christian.ferstl@univie.ac.at> wrote:
>>>
>>>> एतदाश्चर्यमित्यूचुः
>>>> श्रमणा यात्रिणश्चैव ।
>>>> यत्संप्रति गृहस्थत्वं
>>>> सर्वलोकः समाश्रितः ॥
>>>>
>>>> "This is astonishing", said the mendicants and pilgrims,
>>>> "that nowadays everyone has become a householder!"
>>>>
>>>> Christian Ferstl
>>>>
>>>> Am 07.04.2020 15:14, schrieb Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY:
>>>>> A distraction from the Coronavirus
>>>>>
>>>>> कोरोनां भीषणां दृष्ट्वा
>>>>> लङ्कां त्यक्त्वा बिभीषण:
>>>> ।
>>>>>
>>>>> रामेण सहितोऽयोध्यां
>>>>> प्रायात् सोऽपि विचक्षण:
>>>> ।।
>>>>>
>>>>> Seeing the frightening Corona, the wise Bibhishana, leaving Lanka,
>>>>> also went to Ayodhya along with 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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