उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

14 NOTES ON [ I. 10— But whatever the primeval sages (who are the seers of Vedic hymns) may say even by chance comes out to be true on ac- count of the great store of their merit, they have not to adjust their speech to the facts of the world. राम says —वसिष्ठ is one of the primeval seers of Vedic hymns, when he pronounces a benediction that सीता may give birth to a hero, his words are sure to be fulfilled. Hence the verse लौकितानां &c. constitutes the reason why राम says 'अनुगृहीता स्मः' The idea is similar to the one in the शाकुन्तल IV 'भगवन् परवानयं, नाशीः' Compare IV. 18 below. The निरुक्त says 'साक्षात्कृतधर्माण ऋषयो बभूवुः' वीर० com- ments 'तपस्विनामुक्तिषु तपःप्रभावेणानुकूलमर्थमुत्पादयतीति भावः' R. com- ments प्रसन्नानामृषीणां मुखाद्यदेव निःसरति तपःसिद्धिफलेन तदेव फलति न कदा- चित्तदुक्तं निष्फलं भवतीति भावः' इदम्—this is in apposition with the sentence यत्किञ्चित् वितथ्य. अरुन्धती was the wife of वसिष्ठ. देवीभिः refers to the mothers of राम. यत्किञ्चित् whatever (it may be). गर्भदोहदं longing of pregnancy. दोहद is said to be neuter by अमर but other lexicographers say that it is mas- culine also. 'अथ दोहदम् । इच्छा काङ्क्षा स्पृहेहा तृट्' इत्यमरः (on which क्षीरस्वामी says 'अपमिच्छामानस्यापि विशेषतः गर्भिणीच्छायां प्रयुज्यते') Both G and N seem to have read गर्भदोहदोदय (appearance of the longings of pregnancy) which is not bad. अस्याः —सीतायाः अनिभृत् without delay. संपादयितव्य —should be fulfilled. किञ्चिते कथयति it (longing) will be fulfilled if she will tell (what it is). राम intimates that सीता being shy does not speak out what longings she has and means that if she expresses them he would fulfil them at once. This reading is better than the reading of K and Gh यदेषा कथयति, (whatever she says will be done) as the former brings out prominently the shyness of सीता. ननान्दुः पत्या by the husband of your sister-in-law (शान्ता). The person referred to is ऋष्यशृङ्ग. देव्याः refers to सीता. The genitive is used for the dative. कठोर गर्भासि you are not brought (to the sacrificial session) because you are far advanced in pregnancy. A woman should not set out on a journey from the eighth month of pregnancy 'दानादि भ्रमणं चैव मासादष्टमात् स्त्री न चादिशेत्' नतोऽसि रामभद्र —ऋष्यशृङ्ग being a great sage and the husband of राम's elder sister addresses him so. त्वयि सन्नि- has been left (there near you) for diverting you. तत् therefore. पुत्रेण पूर्णं उत्सङ्गं (lap) यस्या. इति marks the end of the message of ऋष्यशृङ्ग. भगवता दिशेोऽसि does not the revered वसिष्ठ send any command to me ? The word आदिष्ट used by राम in contradistinc-