उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

-II. 7 ] UTTARARÂMACHARITA. 63 ८५ ॥ राजदोषैर्विपद्यन्ते प्रजा ह्यविधिपालिताः । असद्वृत्ते हि नृपापापकाले म्रियते जनः ॥ यदा पुरेष्वयुक्तानि जना जनपदेषु च । कुर्वते न च रक्षास्ति तदा कालकृतं भयम् ॥' उत्तरकाण्ड 73 10, 16-17 राम too admits the correctness of the ब्राह्मण's words in सर्ग 76 11 अशरीरा वाग् a heavenly (lit. bodiless) voice rose up In the रामायण, it is नारद who tells राम about the cause of the Brahmana boy's death. Vide उत्तरकाण्ड 74 Verse 8 वृषल-शूद्र 'शूद्राश्छात्रवराँश्च वृषलांश्च जपन्त्यथा' इत्यमरः तप्यते (1 A) undergoes severe penance शीर्षं ते his head should be cut off by you. शीर्षच्छेदं अर्हति इति. 'शीर्षच्छेदाद्यत्' पा० 5 1 65 (शीर्षच्छेदं मिलनङ्गति शीर्षच्छेद्यः। नि कौ ) जीवय bring back to life. Accord ing to writers on धर्मशास्त्र a शूद्र was not authorized to study the Vedas or to practise तपश्चर्या His only duty was to serve the three higher castes He would have been guilty of अधर्म if he had violated the rules laid down for his class. 'विप्रमेवेह शूद्रस्य विशिष्टं कर्म कीर्त्यते । यदतोऽन्यद्धि कुरुते तद्भवत्यस्य निष्फलम् ॥' मनु० 10 123 P 40 इत्युक्त्वैव immediately after hearing this. आकृष्ट कृपाण पाणिं यस्य who had a drawn sword in his hand पुष्पक विमानम् -This was the aerial car of कुबेर which रावण had wrested from him. After रावण's destruction, राम had dismissed पुष्पक and asked it to go to कुबेर and to return to him when he remembered it. See उत्तरकाण्ड सर्ग 41 दिश are the four principal cardinal points विदिशः the four subquarters, south east, south west, north west and north-east धूमपः lit one who drinks smoke i. e inhaling smoke as a sort of penance. 'तस्मिन् सरसि दृप्तन्तं तापसं सुमहत्तरम् । ददर्श राघवः श्रीमाँल्लम्बमानमधोमुखम् ॥' उत्तरकाण्ड 75 14 For taking in smoke, he must have hung head downwards. अपि नाम-these words are often used in the sense of 'would that, I hope that.' कठोरामूत advanced (i e hot) रामभद्र-Note that वासन्ती softens towards राम Verse 9 The subject of अर्पन्ति is कुलाङ्कुराः, the object being गोदावरीम् कण्डूला (कण्डूयुक्ता) द्विपानां गण्डपिण्डा (कपोलभित्तयः) तेषां कषणं तस्मात् आकम्पेन by the shaking due to rubbing (against them) the round and itching temples of elephants सशष्यैः कुसुमै with flowers loosened from their stems by the heat and falling down (by the shaking &c ). घर्मेन (निदाघेन) सञ्चितं क्षपणं येषाम् छाया त्वचा (an act. of द्रुमा )-छायाया अन्तरिकर्म्मणा विष्किराः (शकुनयः) तेषां मुखैः व्याकृष्टाः सीदा दाभ्यः ताः व्रीहयः (बहुव्रीहि) त्वचः त्वग् येषाम् (बहुव्रीहि )-the barks of which had worms drawn out of them by the beaks of birds that were scratching for food in