उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

66 NOTES [II. 12- and 7 lower ones The seven higher ones are भू, भुव, स्व मह, जन, तप, सत्यम् The first three are कृतक (made and destroyed ), मह is कृतकाकृतक, while the last three are अकृतक Those who reach सत्यलोक are never born again They become मुक्त When ब्रह्मा goes to sleep (that is at the end of the कल्प) the first four are destroyed and the last three remain. See विष्णुपुराण II 7 for this तेजसा -तेजोमया P 42 युष्मत्प्रसाद उपादान कारण यस्य युष्मन् महिमा this great ness (that I have attained) is caused by your favour The reading of V and Gh is good युष्मत्पादप्रसाद उदय यस्य Compare महावीर० IV where विश्वामित्र says of राम s greatness 'प्रकृष्टपुण्यपरिपाको पादान एष महिमा' किमत्र तपसा of what use are austerities here ? He means that the greatness he has attained to is solely due to the favour of राम and that his austerities have contributed nothing towards that result If राम had not punished him he would not have been able to go to higher regions and would have gone on practising penance as a शूद्र It was believed that when offenders were punished by kings they became pure and went to heaven if they had any previous merit 'राजभि कृतदण्डास्तु कृत्वा पापानि मानवा । निर्मला स्वर्गमायान्ति सन्त सुकृतिनो यथा ॥' मनु० 8 318 अथवा तपसा or my austerities have done a good deal for me Verse 13 Construe भुवने अन्वेष्टव्य भूतनाथ शरण्य (त्व) मा कुपस्य अन्विष्यन् योजनाना शतानि क्रम्या यद् इह प्राप्त असि स तपसा सम्प्रसाद that you who are a protector and lord of beings in this world and tance of four क्रोशड अथवा चेत् if it were otherwise (i e if this were not due to तपस्) अयोध्वाया from अयोध्या उद्गम arrival दण्डका, being a proper name retains its gender, though used in the same case with वने He means that there was no possibi lity of राम s returning again to दण्डका from अयोध्या, but it was the तपस् of शम्बूक that brought राम from afar to save शम्बूक The way in which दण्डका is pressed on Rama s notice is extremely clever भूतनाथ -राम is here identified with the su preme being This is an anachronism The poet transfers his own feelings to persons who were contemporaries of राम राम himself had no idea that he was an अवतार of विष्णु 'आत्मानं मानुष मन्ये रामं दशरथात्मजम् ।' युद्धकाण्ड 117 11 भूतनाथ may also mean 'king' अन्वेष्टव्य-God is to be searched