उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

—IV. 14] UTTARARĀMACHARITA. 131 flow of the breath of which has been stopped for a very long time i. e. who has not heaved out a breath for a long time. Verse 15 सुहृद् इतरत् (fate) having first manifested an unmixed favour- ableness like a friend who gives delight. सुखं ददाति इति सुहृत् इतरद् यत्र तत्. The favourableness was not mixed up with the least of anything unfavourable. पुनः मनोरुजम् fate terrible on account of the sudden turn (it takes) enhances the anguish of the heart. अकस्मात् (or अकस्माद्) विवर्तनं तेन दारुणा. विशिनष्टि present third sing. of शिष् with वि—to aggravate. मनसः रुक् मनोरुक् ताम् व्यधत्त. The idea is—After the marriage of राम and सीता, the families of जनक and दशरथ were in unmixed happiness, for a time all went well, fortune seemed to smile upon them all of a sudden there came a sad change. In the midst of happiness, सीता was abandoned by Rāma and the two families were plunged in misery. N. reads सुखदनम् which is not good. For presenting a contrast to दारुणा in the third line, we require सुखदत् in the first. This verse occurs in the मालतीमाधव IV. 7, where जगद्धर reads सुखदत् and त्रिपुरारि reads सुखप्रदम्. नव-विवाह- भव्य-लक्ष्मी (शोभा) तया परिग्रहः एकः (मुख्यः केवलः वा) मण्डनं यस्य the chief (or sole) ornament of which (face) was the assumption of the grace due to recent marriage. अस्फुट- मुग्ध-विशद-स्मितं यस्मिन् (face) on which a guileless smile was playing स्फुरन्ती चन्द्रस्य चन्द्रिका तद्वत् सुन्दरी beautiful like the bright (or shining) moonlight of the moon. आसीनत्वेन उत्सङ्गमलङ्कुर्वन् make my lap shine (by sitting upon it as youngsters do). महत्तरैः हिः very great. रघूणां दुहितैव she is the daughter in law of the chief personages of the रघु race (the ancestors of दशरथ) but the daughter of जनक is only my daughter (and not daughter in law). As जनक was the most intimate friend of दशरथ, the former's daughter was as a daughter to the latter. Verse 16 पञ्चप्रसूतो adj. of राज्ञः. पञ्च प्रसूताः यस्य who had five children (राम, लक्ष्मण, भरत, शत्रुघ्न and शान्ता). तस्य राज्ञः = दशरथस्य. दनुजशत्रुः = रामः. The demon सुबाहु along with मारीच troubled विश्वामित्र by showering flesh and blood on the altar while विश्वामित्र was engaged in sacrifice. He came to दशरथ and with the help of राम and लक्ष्मण killed सुबाहु. See बालकाण्ड chap. 19 and 30. इयं सीता although he had four daughters in law, सीता was as dear to him as his own daughter शान्ता. Construe—तदैव अपि राज्ञः श्रिया तनूजा गतेव वधूनां दुहितृवत् प्रीत्या. It is strange that G. explains पञ्चप्रसूतो in such a way as to include शान्ता. N reads तदैव शान्ता for दयेव शान्ता and दुर्देव for तदैव, which is bad, as the construction becomes involved.