उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

become a boy. The reading धीरैव is bad. सभाज् 10th cony or सभाजय् a denominative verb means 'to gladden, honour, adorn' नूनं surely. Verse 20. This verse mentions some of the chara- cteristic marks of a क्षत्रिय student. चूडया चुम्बितानि कङ्कद्वपत्राणि यस्मिन्. कङ्क a heron + पत्रम् feathers (of the heron fixed on an arrow) तूणी a quiver Understand अस्ति after ०द्वयम्. चूडा पृष्ठत on his back there is a pair of quivers on both sides, the feathers of the arrows of which are touched by his lock of hair (on the head) भस्म रोरवीम् his chest having the holy mark of a small quantity of ashes wears the skin of the Ruru deer He wore the skin of रुरु deer as an upper garment. स्तोकं च तत् भस्म च भस्मस्तोकं (कर्मधारय) तदेव पवित्रं लाञ्छनं चिह्नं यस्मिन्. The word स्तोक is put after भस्म in accordance with the Sutra 'पोता-युवतिस्तोककतिपयपृष्टिधैनुवशवेहद्वष्कय णीप्रवक्तृश्रोत्रियाध्यापकधूर्त्तजाति' पा 2 1 65 G takes पवित्र to mean ०व्याघ्रनख (which was hung round the neck of boys as a charm) रौरवी from रुरु (रुरो इयम्) रुरु a kind of deer मौर्वी माञ्जिष्ठकम् the lower garment coloured with the dye of मञ्जिष्ठा (Bengal madder) is tied by means of a girdle of Mūrvā grass मौर्वी—मूर्वाया इदं मौर्वी (or मूर्वाया विकार, according to 'अवयवे च प्राण्योपधिवृक्षेभ्य' पा 4 3 135 ष्ण्यधिकारे। नि ङी ) मञ्जिष्ठया रक्तं माञ्जिष्ठम्, according to 'तेन रक्तं रागात्' पा 4 2 1 (कषायेण रक्त वस्त्रं काषायम् । माञ्जिष्ठम् । सि कौ ) माञ्जिष्ठमेव माञ्जिष्ठकम् The reading माञ्जिष्ठिक is bad, as it is not in accordance with Panini. पाणौ वैणवं —In his hand there is a bow, a rosary of beads and a staff of the Pippala tree. पिप्पलस्यायं पैप्पलं अक्ष वलयम्—अक्षमालिका वलयम् कर्मणे प्रभवति—कार्मुकम्, according to 'कर्मणे उत्सर' पा 5 1 103 Supply अस्ति after each of the three nominatives in the last line Some construe धत्ते with all the things worn by the boy In that case we shall have to read दण्डं तथा पैप्पलम् But this is not a good way of construing the verse We shall then have to take उर as the subject of धत्ते in the second line and the boy (understood) as the subject in the other three lines. A ब्राह्मण student was to wear the skin of a black antelope as an उत्तरीय, his girdle was to be of मुञ्ज grass, he was to carry a staff of विल्व or पलाश tree. It was in the fitness of things that the क्षत्रिय was to wear a garment coloured red मनुस्मृति (II 40-45) lays down what a ब्रह्मचारी belonging to each of the three regenerate classes was to wear 'कार्ष्णरौरवबास्तानि चर्भाणि ब्रह्मचा रिणः । वसीरन्नानुपूर्व्येण शाणक्षौमाविकानि च॥ क्षत्रियस्य तु मौर्वी ज्या वैश्यस्तु शणतान्तवी ॥ माङ्गाल्यो बैल्यपालाशौ क्षत्रियो वाटखादिरौ । पैल्वौदुम्बरौ वैश्यो दण्डा नर्हन्ति धर्मतः ॥' This verse occurs in महावीर० I 18 विभु इति