Thank you to Madhav Deshpande, Roland Steiner, Nagaraj Paturi, AleksandarUsk (and Christophe Vielle (who gave me the reference Borooah, A comprehensive grammar of the Sanskrit language, vol. 10: Prosody, 1883, p. 100 §207, as a sub-type of triṣ.tup, without any name.)

for this fascinating discussion.

1) I couldn't find Mandāramarandacampū published in the Kāvyamālā series, No. 52, Bombay 1895 in archive.org and the link to this text in sanskritbooks.org (which was to an archive.org address) is broken. Does anyone have a pdf or a link to an online copy?

2) The three volume enhanced Apte dictionary that Madhav refererd to, is in the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries websiet https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/ but only available on special request. I'm assuming this is because it is considered to be still under copyright and not in the public domain.

Madhav gave me this information about the edition: 1959 edition published in Pune by Prasad Prakashan, with editors P. K. Gode and C. G. Karve. But the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries website gives a publication date of 1957.

if it was published after 21 January 1958 then the Copyright Act of 1957 applies and it wont be in the public domain until 60 years after the editors date of death. But if the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries website date of publication (1957) for the dictionary is correct then it should be in the public domain.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_India#Duration_of_copyright_protection_under_the_Copyright_Act_1957

Thanks,

Harry Spier

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 5:31 AM Roland Steiner via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Madhav,

> indicating that the reading of the definition given in the Kavyamala edition is faulty

Surprisingly, the commentary (Mādhuryarañjanīvyākhyā) confirms this fault:

narau nagaṇaragaṇau ro ragaṇaḥ / gau gurudvayam /

I guess that the correct entry in the three volume edition of Apte's dictionary could be taken from Velankar's Jayadāman (Bombay 1949, p. 126):

"nararalaga Rājahaṃsī (6,5) Mm. 9.11, Vibhūṣaṇā Vjs [= Vṛttajātisamuccaya of Vīrahaṅka] 4.94"

By the way, the definition kanakamañjarī naś ca rau lagau is itself written in this meter (na ra ra la ga; caesura after the 6th syllable) - a practice that was probably first introduced by Jayadeva (leaving aside the hardly datable Nāṭyaśāstra).

Best wishes,
Roland Steiner

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