[[Mohan K.V 2012-10-23, 23:02:03 Source]]
सदास्वादरोमन्थः
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Dear reader,
Our sincere thanks for your interest in our humble endeavor; our mailing list has grown to nearly 50 members in the short space of a month, and we’re overjoyed at this response. We thought this would be a good time to share some of the feedback, corrigenda and suggestions we’ve received.
Śatāvadhāni Dr. R. Ganesh, a sahṛdaya-suhṛd-ratna to whom we are indebted in more ways than we can recount here, sends his regards and appreciation, in particular for edition #2 (Bhartṛhari’s hungry lion verse) and #4 (The parrot and Indra). He recounts several more subtle features of the hungry lion verse that make it a refined piece of art, no less: the repeated use of the single samuccayārthaka (conjunctive) word “api” six times, ‘building a case’ as it were; the suggestion behind the sounds like agr"E"saraḥ k"E"sarī, with the long ‘E’ in consonance with the unified majesty of the lion of the 3rd line, all the schools of sāhityaśāstra (guṇa, rīti, alaṃkāra, dhvani, vakrokti and aucitya) coming one after the other to enhance the Rasa.
P.K.Ramakrishnan comments on the ‘Thought for today’ of the second edition: we had written,
kiṃ vāsasā-iti-atra vicāraṇīyam
vāsaḥ pradhānaṃ khalu yogyatāyai |
pītāmbaraṃ vīkṣya dadau svakanyām
digambaraṃ vīkṣya viṣaṃ samudraḥ
He notes that the last line might better read as, “carmāmbaraṃ vīkṣya viṣaṃ samudraḥ”. The contrast between wearing a hide and wearing silk is more apt than the contrast between being naked and wearing silk; the former is more in the same ‘category’. We thank Mr. Ramakrishnan for this suggestion, and welcome any such thoughts from him and you all. Please email us at kvm….@gmail.com and shree…@gmail.com
Thought for today
दातुं परोपकृतिनिर्भरचित्तवृत्तेः
आसन्नदूरगणना नहि संश्रितेषु ।
भानुर्विकासयति हन्त सरोजखण्डं
पाणिस्थपङ्कजसमं भुवनान्तरेषु ॥
dātuṃ paropakṛti-nirbhara-cittavṛtteḥ
āsanna-dūra-gaṇanā nahi saṃśriteṣu |
bhānurvikāsayati hanta sarojakhaṇḍaṃ
pāṇisthapaṅkajasamaṃ bhuvanāntareṣu ||
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