उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

82 NOTES ON [III. 3-
मनीषिणाम्। आसीन्महीक्षितामाद्यः प्रणवश्छन्दसामिव ॥' रघु० I 11. Notice
the alliteration in प्रसवितारं सवितारम्. अपहत पाप्मा येन-who destroys
sin. In the छान्दोग्योपनिषद् I. 6. 6-7 we read 'अथ य एषोऽन्तरादित्ये
हिरण्मयः पुरुषो दृश्यते... तस्य यथा कप्यासं पुण्डरीकमेवमक्षिणी तस्योदिति नाम, स
एष सर्वेभ्यः पाप्मभ्य उदितः, उदेति ह वै सर्वेभ्यः पाप्मभ्यो य एवं वेद'. स्वहस्ताभ्या
अवचितैः gathered with your own hands. उपतिष्ठस्व worship. For
the आत्मनेपद, see notes p. 8. अवनि चारिणीम् wandering about on
the surface of the earth. आह्लाविता-supply भागीरथ्या. प्रकृष्टं प्रेम
यस्याः सा प्रकृष्टप्रेमा. त्वयि जानकी-सीता (our) daughter-in-law has
the greatest affection for you. प्रत्यनन्तराभव be in attendance upon
her, be close to her. This is a च्वि formation, according to
'कृभ्वस्तियोगे सम्पद्यकर्त्तरि च्वि' पा. 5. 4. 50 (अप्रत्यनन्तरं प्रत्यनन्तरं भवति
or सम्पद्यते इति प्रत्यनन्तरीभवति). यथादिष्टम् as ordered (आदिष्टमनतिक्रम्य,
अव्ययीभाव). गोदावरीह्रदात् from the pool of the गोदावरी. इव goes
with जानकी in verse 4. Verse 4. ०सुन्दर qualifies आननम्, which
is the object of दधती. दरि आननम् having a face beautiful with
the cheeks that are pale and languid, with her hair dangling
about. परिपाण्डु दुर्बलौ च कपोलौ ताभ्यां सुन्दरम्. विलोला कचरी (केशपाशः)
यस्मिन्. सीता had not braided her hair on account of her grief due
to being abandoned by her husband. For the affix क, see notes
p. 6 on असङ्गतानन्दनादीक. दधती pre. participle f. of धा. करुण जानकी
-सीता comes to the forest as if she were the image of pathos or
as if she were the pang of separation incarnate. इव occurring
after ०व्यथा is be connected with मूर्ति also. The figure is
उत्प्रेक्षा. The reading in the text is better. If we read विरहव्यथेव
the figure will be रूपक. But this is not good. In रूपक we gener-
ally identify one existing thing with another existing thing on
account of their great resemblance as in मुखं चन्द्रः. But as शरीरिणी
विरहव्यथा is itself a fiction and not a fact, it is better to read
व्यथेव in order that the figure may be उत्प्रेक्षा. If we read
मूर्त्तिरिव वा, we require another वा after व्यथेव. इयं हि सा-connect
these words with the first line of the next verse. Verse 5.
इयं हि सा विमल लूनम् Here is she (सीता) like a pretty sprout
cut off from its stem. This is a better way of construing the
verse. We may also regard the first line as in apposition with
शरीरम् in the third line. In that case the meaning is 'her body
that is pretty like a sprout &c.' In this case there is the fault
of दूरान्वय as the 2nd line intervenes. विम्लान past p. p. of म्लै
with वि and प्र. हृदय कुसुमम् the fierce and long continued
sorrow that withers the flower of her heart causes her pale
and weak body to waste away just as the autumnal heat