उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

ed and grief overpowers him, as if he had just then been se- parated from सीता The reading चिरोद्वेगारम्भी is not good It means 'that causes despondency after a long time' This can not be well construed with विपरम For प्रचड some read क्वचित् which is good and means the same thing निहित इव for मग्न इव would mean 'placed inside (the body)' Some read मूर्च्छयति च for मृतन इव, which also is good पूर्वसुहृद् my former friends अहो संनिवेश —Oh, the position of the objects has changed अवस्थित means 'fixed' अनवस्थित means 'unsettled changed' The reading भूमिसंनिवेश is also good it would mean 'the position of the land scape has undergone a change तथाहि for instance Verse 27 पुरा सरिताम् where formerly there was a stream, there is now the sandy bank of rivers 'तोयोत्थित सैकतपुलिनम्' श्यन्तर विप र्यासम् the denseness and thinness of trees have become interchanged This means that the former density of trees has given place to thinness and vice versa क्षितिरुहः a tree (क्षितौ रोहति इति ) बह्वो qualifies कालाद् बडो चिरम् this forest seen after a long time, I regard as being quite another निवेश द्रढयति the situation of the hills, however confirms (my) idea that it is the same द्रढयति— denominative verb from दृढ राम means that in twelve years the courses of rivers and the appearance of the trees under went a total change it is only the hills that remained unchang- ed by the lapse of time क्षेमेन्द्र in his औचित्यविचारचर्चा cites this verse as an example of देशौचित्य and remarks "अत्र बहुतिथवत्सरातीते काले शम्बूकवधप्रसङ्गेन दण्डकारण्यं राम पूर्वपरिचित पुन प्रविष्ट समन्तादवलोकयेश ब्रूते 'पुरा यत्र स्रोतो' वत्यादनात्रेदानीं यत्, वृक्षाणां घनविरलते विपर्ययवशिरादृढ वनमिदमपूर्वमिव मन्ये, पर्वतसंनिवेशस्तु तदेवेतीति बुद्धि स्थिरीकरोति।' इत्युक्त निरवकाशविपयपरिवृत्तमप्यन्यथानवस्थानतया हृदयसंवादी देशास्वभाव परममीपि समुद्द्योतयति ।' हन्त alas ! परि वीर my affection for पञ्चवटी as if draws me forcibly from this place, though I am avoiding it (पञ्चवटी ) पद्मरागौ स्नेह सकरुणम् pathetically Verse 28 यस्यां and यन्मनायि० are to be connected with तां पञ्चवटीं in the latter half of the verse वस्यां गृहे in which I passed those (former well known) days in her (Sītā's) company as in my own house राम says that in पञ्चवटी he was as happy in the company of सीता as he would have been in his own palace at अयोध्या यत्सम्ब न्धीयन about which we (राम and सीता ) always had long talks (when we came back to अयोध्या ) कथारिरामीयन is an impersonal construction. याम्यायत passive Imperfect 3rd per sing of स्मा with आ The reading पुन for यया is not bad In that case wo