B&K_P.059

Question 1

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Definition: 17 syllables, म भ न त त ग ग, 4/6/7
ऽ ऽ ऽ ऽ , । । । । । ऽ , ऽ । ऽ ऽ । ऽ ऽ

Answer 1

METER: Mandākrāntā
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsSW9EvsOpo

Definition: 17 syllables, म भ न त त ग ग, 4/6/7

Mandākrāntā
The mandākrāntā is an atyaṣṭi meter (with 17 syllables per quarter) that was made famous by Kālidāsa in his Cloud Messenger (Meghadūta), which is composed entirely in this meter. The mandākrāntā would be associated with message poems forever afterwards.

The syllabic pattern is:

ऽ ऽ ऽ ऽ , । । । । । ऽ , ऽ । ऽ ऽ । ऽ ऽ

Question 2

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भावस्निग्ध mfn.

Answer 2

भावस्निग्ध mfn. heartily attached, affectionately disposed

Question 3

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शाठ्य n.

Answer 3

शाठ्य n. wickedness, deceit, guile, roguery, dishonesty
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vṛddhi FROM śaṭha शठ a. [शठ्-अच्] 1 Crafty, deceitful, fraudulent. dishonest, perfidious. -2 Wicked, depraved. -ठः 1 A rogue, cheat, knave, swindler; Ms.4.3; Bg.18.28. -2 A false or deceitful lover (who pretends to love one woman while his heart is fixed on another); ध्रुवमस्मि शठः शुचि- स्मिते विदितः कैतववत्सलस्तव R.8.49;19.31; शठ इति मयि तावदस्तु ते परिचयवत्यवधीरणा प्रिये M.3.19; (the S. D. thus defines a शठ:– शठो$यमेकत्र बद्धभावो यः । दर्शितबहिरनुरागो विप्रियमन्यत्र गूढमाचरति ॥ 74). -3 A fool, blockhead. -4 A mediator, arbitrator. -5 The Dhattūra plant. -6 An idler, a lazy fellow. -ठम् 1 Iron. -2 Saffron. -Comp. -उदर्क a. deceitful in the end.

Question 4

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स्वाकृति mfn.

Answer 4

स्वाकृति mfn. good-looking, handsome ; svākṛti a. good-looking, hand some, beautiful.
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सु ‘well’ + आकृति f. ~ आकार m. ‘outward form or appearance’

Question 5

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दीपशिखाकान्ति

Answer 5

दीपशिखाकान्ति  [ND] SEEMS TO MEAN 
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दीपशिखा	f.	the point of a shining body,
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कान्ति f. kāntiḥ	कान्तिः [कम् भावे क्तिन्] 1 Loveliness, beauty, Me. 15; अक्लिष्टकान्ति Ś.5.19. -2 Brightness, lustre, brilliance; Me.84. -3 Personal decoration or embellishment. -4 Wish, desire. -5 (In Rhet.) Beauty enhanced by love; (S. D. thus distinguishes कान्ति from शोभा and दीप्तिः -- रूपयौवनलालित्यं भोगाद्यैरङ्गभूषणम् । शोभा प्रोक्ता सैव कान्ति- र्मन्मथाप्यायिता द्युतिः । कान्तिरेवातिविस्तीर्णा दाप्तिरित्यभिधीयते 13, 131). -6 A lovely or desirable woman. -7 An epithet of Durgā. -8 A digit of the moon. -9 N. of Lakṣmī; भूषणानि महार्हाणि ददौ कान्तिः शुभां स्रजम् Bhāg.1.65.29. -Comp. -कर a. beautifying, illuminating, brightening. -द a. beautifying, adorning. (-दम्) 1 bile. -2 clarified butter. -द, -दायक, -दायिन् a. adorning. -भृत् m. the moon.

Question 6

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1.11
गोमायु m.

Answer 6

गोमायु mfn. (g/o–) making sounds like cattle (a frog) ; गोमायु m. a kind of frog ; गोमायु m. a jackal ; गोमायु m. Name of a jackal
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DISTINGUISH FROM गोमाय m. ‘cow dung’
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मायु ‘bleating, mooing, bellowing’ FROM √मा cl.3 P. m/imāti- (according to to A1. mimīte- mimeti-; Potential mimīyat- ; perfect tense, mimāya-; Aorist /amīmet- subjunctive mīmayat-; infinitive mood m/ātav/ai-), to sound, bellow, roar, bleat (especially said of cows, calves, goats etc.) : Intensive , only pr. p. m/emyat-, bleating (as a goat)
THIS IS THE SANSKRIT WORD FOR “MOO” - TO BE DISTINGUISHED FROM cl.3 √मा ‘to measure’ MANY OF WHOSE FORMS LOOK IDENTICAL SINCE BOTH ARE CLASS iii VERBS

Question 7

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1.11
भ्रष्ट mfn.

Answer 7

भ्रष्ट mfn. fallen, dropped, fallen down or from or off (ablative or compound) ; भ्रष्ट mfn. (with or scilicet divaḥ-), fallen from the sky id est banished to the earth ; भ्रष्ट mfn. broken down, decayed, ruined, disappeared, lost, gone ; भ्रष्ट mfn. fled or escaped from, rid of (ablative) ; भ्रष्ट mfn. strayed or separated from, deprived of (ablative or compound) etc.
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भ्रंश् or bhraś- (sometimes written bhraṃs-; see bhṛś-) cl.1 A1. () bhraṃśate- (once in P. ti-) cl.4 P. (;cf. bhṛś-) bhraśyati- (Epic also A1. te- perfect tense babhraṃśa- śe- grammar; Aorist subjunctive bhraśat- ; abhraṃśiṣṭa- grammar; future bhraṃśiṣyati-, te-; bhraṃśitā- ; ind.p. bhraṃśitvā-and bhraṣṭvā- ), to fall, drop, fall down or out or in pieces etc. ; to strike against (locative case) ; to rebound from (ablative) ; to fall (figuratively), decline, decay, fail, disappear, vanish, be ruined or lost etc. ; to be separated from or deprived of, lose (ablative) etc. ; to slip or escape from (genitive case) ; to swerve or deviate from, abandon (ablative) : Causal bhraṃśayati- (or bhrāśayati-; see bhr/āśya-and ni-bhraṃś-; Aorist ababhraṃśat-; Passive voice bhraṃśyate-), to cause to fall (literally and figuratively), throw down, overthrow etc. ; to cause to disappear or be lost destroy ; to cause to escape from (ablative) ; to cause to deviate from (ablative) ; to deprive any one (accusative) of (ablative; exempli gratia, ‘for example’ upavāsāt-or vratāt-,”of the reward for fasting or performing any observance”) etc.: Desiderative bibhraṃśiṣati-, te- grammar : Intensive bābhraśyate-, bhraṣṭi- ; banībhraśyate- or bhraṃśyate-

Question 8

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जीवविशेष m.

Answer 8

IGNORE THE FOLLOWING. THIS WORD MEANS ‘animal species, species of animal’
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जीवविशेष m.
SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD MEAN ‘an animal-distinction’ (?). AS WE HAVE SEEN ELSEWHERE, THE ANSWER SEEMS TO BE IN REARRANGING THE FORMAL GRAMMAR OF THE WHOLE PHRASE IN TERMS OF DEEP STRUCTURE – OR, IN OTHER WORDS, TREATING A WHOLE PHRASE (IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT SOME WORDS HAVE CASE ENDINGS) AS ONE HUGE SINGLE ALUKSAMASA COMPOUND:
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जीवविशेषस्तव भोज्यः । = ‘an animal (जीव) especially (विशेष) to be eaten (भोज्यः) by you (तव )’