उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

-V 14] UTTARARĀMACHARITA. 151 ... पातालस्य उदरमेव कुञ्जं or पातालोदरे कुञ्जं तस्मिन् पुषितं (सञ्चितं ) तेन दन्तुरानि as black as the darkness collected in the bower in the form of the central regions of पाताल. पाताल as the haunt of demons and sinners was supposed to be full of darkness. ... ज्वलत्खरतरद्रव आरकूट (brass) तस्य कपिशानि ज्योतींषि तद्वत् ज्वलन्ति धामानि येषाम्—whose lustre is brilliant like that of the brownish (कपिश) light of heated and (therefore) sparkling brass. These two lines explain how there is a combination of darkness and lightning (as said above). The second half contains an उत्प्रेक्षा. व्यभ्रद्भिः qualifies शृङ्गैः. कल्पे य आक्षेपः (lit. snatching away, destruction) तस्मिन् यः कठोरः भैरवः मरुत् (वायुः) तेन व्यग्रैः (स्थानान्तरं गतैः) that are dispersed at the time of universal destruction by violent and terrible winds. नीरन्ध्रैः मेघैः द्युतिमद्भिः (विद्युद्भिः) च अन्तराणि कुहराणि येषाम् the caverns of which are brownish in conse- quence of the clouds and lightning closing upon them. कूट-शृङ्ग, a peak. The poet speaks of the विन्ध्य probably because being a native of the Berars, that mountain was familiar to him. The चूर्णकुन्तल spreading darkness and lightning are poetically represent- ed to be the peaks of the विन्ध्य blown away by the Pralaya wind and covered by dark clouds and flashing lightning. We saw above that at the time of प्रलय, 49 winds begin to blow. कल्प—is a period of 1000 Mahāyugas (कलि, द्वापर, त्रेता and कृत con- stitute one महायुग) which is equal to 4320000000 human years. It is equal to a day of ब्रह्मा, the night also being of the same extent. At the end of a Kalpa the whole universe is destroyed. नस्तत्त्वस्य आत्त्वम् acquisition, knowledge. नैव जृम्भकेषु this cannot be so as regards missiles and especially जृम्भक missiles. वाल्मीकि was not known to be a teacher of missiles. Verse 15 दृशाथ—see text p. 11 (the words of दृश्या) and notes there in. सम्प्रदायेन by the instruction given by him (शिक्षानिधौ) as a teacher. सम्प्रदाय means गुरुशिष्यपरम्परा. अपरे others (than विश्वामित्र and राम). प्रचीयमानं सत्त्वस्य (सत्त्वगुणस्य) प्रकाशो येषु—in whom light due to the preponderance of सत्त्वगुण is growing. Accord- ing to the सांख्य philosophers, there are three गुणाः—सत्त्व, रजस् and तमस्. The special characteristic of सत्त्व is light (i. e. knowledge of the truth). 'सत्त्वं लघु प्रकाशकमिष्टमुपष्टम्भकं चलं च रजः' सांख्यकारिका. मन्त्रदृशः seers of mantras i. e. sages. सर्वं पश्यन्ति see all (and can therefore possess the knowledge of missiles even without सम्प्रदाय). परम्परा arrived. प्रतिवीर rival warrior. दिष्ट्या दर्शनेन दृष्ट्या. स्नेह is the inner feeling, while अनुराग is its outward manifestation. Verse 16 The last line contains the princi-