उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

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to the yawn of the mouth of death, because it is the bow that
is going to deal death to Lava's opponents. For this reason we
separate विकटोदरम् from विटपि. The string is compared to
the tongue, the two ends of the bow to the two jaws. The
bow produces a twanging sound, when one eats hurriedly large
quantities of food, a sound is produced. The god of death is
said to be smiling, because he is glad to devour the many people
killed in battle. This verse is a fine specimen of बीररस. It is
one of those verses in Bhavabhûti's works where the sound
seems an echo to the sense. This verse occurs in महावीरचरित
III. 29. यथोचितं परिक्रम्य walking about as befits each of them.
This is a direction to the actors. In some Mss. this Act is
called कौसल्याजनकयोग.
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Act V.
The scene of this Act is laid near the hermitage of Vâlmîki.
This Act follows closely upon the incidents narrated in the
fourth and hence there is no prelude in it.
15 एष चन्द्रकेतु रुपैति—here comes चन्द्रकेतु. ननु is emphatic. खल्वित्थं
यथा तथा सुमन्त्रेण नुद्यमाना (प्रेर्यमाणा ) प्रोद्वेलन्त प्रत्वरिता वाजिन (अश्वा )
यस्य—(in a chariot) the swift horses of which are galloping
being furiously urged by सुमन्त्र. सुमन्त्र was the charioteer of
दशरथ and so must have been very old. The readings प्रोद्वेलन्
and व्यासक्तन् mean the same thing. उत्खातेषु प्रनमित कोविदारकेतु
यस्य whose banner post made of the कोविदार tree shook on
account of uneven ground. उत्खातम् (lit. dug up) uneven
ground. प्रधनम्—fight. 'युद्धमायोधनं जन्यं प्रधनं प्रविदारणम्' इत्यमर.
The reading उद्भ्रान्त yields the same sense. सुमन्त्र सारथि यस्य.
धनुः पाणौ यस्य. Verse 2. The principal sentence is कोऽप्यय
बीरपोत कार्मुकेन समरशिरसि चमूनामुपरि शरतुषारं किरति—this brave
boy scatters over the armies a shower of arrows with his
bow in the van of the battle. किरति present of कृ 6. P.
वपुषि श्री (adj. of पोत) कश्चित् किञ्चित्कोप तेन रञ्जयती मुखश्री
(मुखशोभा) यस्य—the beauty of whose face is coloured (reddened)
by the slight anger that he feels. वपु is said to have been only
slightly ruffled, because he treated with contempt the army