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Today's Topics:
1. Query RE udyoga. shloka 13. What lakAra to use: wishes
versus facts (Jay Vaidya)
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:04:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jay Vaidya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Sanskrit] Query RE udyoga. shloka 13. What lakAra to use:
wishes versus facts
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This concerns Sai's current udyogaparvam shloka (#13).
This question is not regarding translation but rather
content of the verse.
Sai writes:
> Dr. sarasvati mohan mahodayAyAH paryavekShaNe SrI
> vikrama santurkarasya anuvAdaH
>
> shlokaH 13
> nAsureShu na deveShu tulyo bhavitumarhasi .
> sarveShA.n teja Adatsva svena vIryeNa darshanAt .
> na te pramukhataH sthAtu.n kashchidichchhati
> vIryavAn .. 13..\
> ...
> na=not;
> kashchit=anyone;
> sthAtu.n=to stand;
> ichchhati=wishes;
> ...
> anuvAdaH
> Indraani to Nahusha: You do not deserve to be equal
> to auras, devas.
> >From the display of your brilliance, you absorb
> everyone's strength.
> Eventhough others are valorous, not even a few wish
> to be established
> as the lord.
>From the context, it appears that indrANI (with
ulterior motives, we know) is telling nahushha what he
SHOULD be rather than what he is currently. "You
deserve to be equal to..." etc., meaning currently
nahushha falls short.
That is why she implores/orders him "Adatsva"="Take
away!" in loT, the imperitive, and does not inform him
"Adatse"="you take away" in laT.
Given that, I expect from context, not words, that the
last line should be "... not anybody SHOULD wish to be
established in your face... "
By the context, she is trying to goad him into having
the sages as his steeds (previous few verses) -- she
says his station currently is not respectable enough.
Yet the text clearly is laT "ichchhati" not loT
"ichchhatu", i.e., "not anybody wishes" rather than
"not anybody SHOULD wish". Well, if already nobody
wishes to establish themselves in nahushha's face, why
should nahushha bother doing anything more?
Any thoughts?
dhanaMjayaH
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