उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

—III 26] UTTARARĀMACHARITA 93 Object it is put in the genitive ‘षष्ठी हेतुप्रयोगे’ पा २ ३ २६ (हेतु- शब्दप्रयोगे हेतौ योऽर्थः षष्ठी स्यात् । अन्नस्य हेतोर्वसति । सि. कौ. ) य एव किमपि— the people themselves know what that indescribable reason is. Rama could not bring himself to repeat the undeserved scandal and so uses the word किमपि. Moreover the word, convey some taunt. चिरात्था the taunt comes after a long time (when it is too late). इत्यनेन means that the taunt contained in Rama's words मन्ये किमपि comes too late as it cannot set matters right, सीता having been abandoned twelve years before. The reading उचितत्था is not bad. The meaning is this taunt given to the people is deserved. But it is not so good as the one in the text. Verse 27 Here again it will be noticed that there are no compounds as the feeling is intense. अयि—is an interjection used as a tender mode of address अनुनये त्वयि इत्यादौ. कठोर is addressed to राम. यशः स्विद् I hear that fame is dear to you. किम् इतरम् what infamy is more horrid than this (viz. the abandonment of one's innocent and pregnant wife)? She means —you abandoned सीता I am told because you thought that otherwise your reputation would suffer. But you adopted a remedy which instead of adding to your fame would rather cause infamy. So how can you be said to be one to whom fame is dear! The second line may also mean would even an evil name be more horrid than this? विपिने in the forest. हरिणदृशः (जनतया ) दृग्दृश्या इत्यनेन यथा मादृश्यादृश तयोः दृक् is used in the sense of अनुकम्पा or खेद. सन्तुष्टपरुषोपहसितानाम्ना यत् दृश्यम्. कथं मन्यसे how do you think? She means —do you think that she is still living? या मय्य मन्दयसि who torment (my lord) that is already afflicted (overwhelmed by sorrow). अत्र स्नेहः it is affection and sorrow that say so. तात्पर्यार्थस्तु that the harsh words of वासन्ती (अयि कठोर &c.) are due to her great affection for सीता and the grief she feels at the sad end (which she supposes) that सीता must have met. कियन् मन्तव्यम् what room for thought is there! (i. e. there is no necessity for speculating about the fate of सीता. I am quite sure she met a sad death). Verse 28 पृथु and उत्पला qualify तन्वी, the principal sentence being तन्वी जन्त्वन्तरैः क्रव्याद्भिः विपिनान्ते विशसिता— her creeper like body was certainly devoured by the beasts of prey. एकहायन (एकं हायनं संवत्सर यस्य) मुग्धं तस्य इव विलोक- (चञ्चल) दृष्टिः दृश्या मा दृश्या—of her who e eyes were as unsteady as those of a frightened fawn one year old. परि पश्यता —