उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

92 NOTES ON [ III 17- It is the knot wherein are imperceptibly tied together the two hearts of husband and wife just as two threads are tied together in one knot. The child is the source of joy to the parents and hence called आनन्दग्रन्थि. G separates as ग्रन्थि and रेक, instead of ग्रन्थिरेक. The explanation of G is bad and brings the high and pure sentiment breathed in this verse to a low sensual level. Verse 18. ते प्रिया—This refers to सीता. अनुदिवसम् (दिवसे दिवसे इति अव्ययीभाव) day by day. यम् is the object of अवर्धयत्, the antecedent being स- एष शिखण्डी in the 4th line. अचिर-निर्गत-मुग्ध (मनोहर)-शिख (धवल) बर्ह यस्य—whose tail that had recently come out was charming and waving. बर्हम् the peacock's tail 'पिच्छबर्हे नपुंसके' इत्यमरः उत्क्षिप्त (उन्नता शिखा यस्य) whose crest is upraised. मणिमुकुट इव like a crown of jewels. कदम्बे on the कदम्ब tree. नदति screams, gives out notes. वध्वा सखा वधूसखः—तत्पुरुष. सखि becomes सख at the end of a तत्पुरुष according to 'राजाहःसखिभ्यष्टच्' पा० ५. ४. ९१ (एतदन्तात्तत्पुरुषाट्टच् स्यात् । कृष्णसखः । सि. कौ.) वधूसखः in the company of his mate (lit. the companion of his wife). The peacock's tail presents various sparkling colours; besides, the peacock's body is large but its neck is long and thin. Hence the peacock with its brilliant tail is represented as the crown inlaid with jewels placed on the कदम्ब tree. A crown is wide at the bottom and goes on tapering upwards. V and Gh read the first half differently. But the reading in the text is preferable. वासन्ती wants to point out the objects with which सीता was specially connected. With the reading in the text we know at once that the peacock was fed by सीता. The reading of V and Gh brings before us the peacock abruptly and the words of सीता (कथं एष स) that follow the verse cannot be properly connected with it. अनरण- स्मेरबर्ह this (peacock) whose tail freshly come out is charm- ing and waving at the end of the festivity of dance due to its excessive joy. न विघटते तरङ्गः यस्मात् सः अनरणः मन् तेन सान्द्रः तस्य उत्सवः तस्य अन्ते तैषु. एष स this is the same (peacock that I fed). P. 65. मोदस्व rejoice. राम calls upon the peacock to go on joyfully as the latter is in the company of its mate, while राम himself is deprived of सीता. एव भवतु—सीता also approves that her pet should be happy though she herself is in grief. Verse 19. Supply त्वाम् before मण्डयन्त्या. मण्डयन्त्या and मुग्धया qualify 'सीतया' (understood). भ्रूभिक्षु मण्डयन्त्या (by her) who adorned you with the dance of her moving and beautiful eyebrows.