उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

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happy, as it fails to bring out the contrast between the circum-
stances of the separation in the past and of its recollection in
the present. G. seems to have read तत्काले, which means the
same thing as तत्काल. दनोमि for करोमि comes to the same thing.
अतिभूमिं गतेन gone to excess. रणरणक anxiety, sorrow. अन्यत क्षिपामि
I shall turn (their attention) elsewhere (i. e. to another
incident). मन्वन्तर राजस of the king of vultures, who was as
old as a मन्वन्तर. अन्य मनुः मन्वन्तर (a compound of the मयूरव्यंसक
class). वसाद् पुराण or मन्वन्तरेण पुराण or मन्वन्तरेषु पुराण. R exp-
lains 'मनूनामन्तर अधिकारकालः मन्वन्तरम्। मन्वन्तरपुराणस्य मन्वन्तरप्रभृति-
समकालमुत्पन्नस्येति यावत्।' According to the Pauranic computation,
one year of men is equal to one day of the gods. The four
युगs are equal to 12000 दिव्य years, i. e. equal to 4320000 human
years. One thousand cycles of युगs are equal to a day of ब्रह्मा.
In a day of ब्रह्मा, there are fourteen मनुs. So in each मन्वन्तर there
are about 71 cycles of the four युगs (1000 divided by 14). The
मनुस्मृति says “यत्प्राग्द्वादशसाहस्रमुदितं दैविकं युगम्। तदेकसप्ततिगुणं मन्वन्तर-
मिहोच्यते॥” I. 79, 'मन्वन्तरं तु दिव्यानां युगानामेकसप्ततिः' इत्यमरः. The
first मनु is स्वायंभुव. The present is the 7th, वैवस्वत. तातप्रसङ्ग उप —as
जटायु was the friend of दशरथ, he is referred to as तात. चरित्र -
हरणम् an illustration of the valorous deeds (of जटायु). चरित्रं च
विक्रमश्च तयो उदाहरणम्. जटायु—दक्षप्रजापति had sixty daughters of
whom कश्यप married eight. One of these eight was ताम्रा, who
gave birth to five daughters one of whom was शुकी. The
latter's daughter was नता, whose daughter was विनता. विनता
had two sons गरुड and अरुण. जटायु was the son of अरुण, his elder
brother being संपाति. See अरण्यकाण्ड सर्ग 14 'द्वौ पुत्रौ विनतायास्तु
गरुडोऽरुण एव च। तस्माज्जातोऽहमरुणात्संपातिश्च ममाग्रजः॥' 32-33. When
रावण carried off सीता, जटायु on hearing सीता's wailing, opposed
रावण and called upon him to desist from the sin he was com-
mitting. A fight ensued, in which रावण's chariot was broken
by जटायु; रावण, however, cut off with his sword the feet and
wings of जटायु who fell mortally wounded. Later on when
राम returned after killing मारीच and searched in vain for सीता,
he saw जटायु on the point of death and was informed by the
latter that it was रावण who had carried off सीता. See अरण्यकाण्ड
सर्ग 50-51 and 67-68.
P. 20. निर्व्यूढः स्नेहः you carried out to the end your affec-
tion for children. निर्व्यूढः is the past pass. p. of वह् with निर् and
वि. निर्वह् means 'to carry to an end'. काश्यप—जटायु is so