P122

Question 1

ĀRAṆYA KĀṆḌAM
02.10 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
यद्वामाङ्के

Answer 1

यद्वामाङ्के == ‘upon the left-hand side of whose (Rama’s) lap’

Question 2

ĀRAṆYA KĀṆḌAM
02.10 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
तटिल्लता f.

Answer 2

तटिल्लता f. == ‘lightning bolt’ (transl.) AND YET I CANNOT FIND THIS WORD IN THE DICTIONARIES

Question 3

ĀRAṆYA KĀṆḌAM
02.11 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
पञ्चात्मक mfn.

Answer 3

== COMPOSED OF PHYSICAL MATTER
पञ्चात्मक mfn. consisting of 5 elements (as the body), fivefold ( pañcātmakatva -tva- n.)
SO पञ्चात्मकं वपुः == ‘(a person’s) physical body’

Question 4

ĀRAṆYA KĀṆḌAM
02.16 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
शेषांश m.

Answer 4

शेषांश m. == ‘an incarnation of Śeṣa (Viṣṇu’s serpent)’ WHICH Lakṣmaṇa is, JUST AS Bharata and Śatrughna ARE INCARNATIONS OF Viṣṇu’s CONCH-SHELL AND DISCUS, RESPECTIVELY
शेषांश m. NOT == ‘a partial incarnation; an incarnation of the remainder’ HERE
NOTE; The avatar concept was further developed and refined in later Hindu texts. One approach was to identify full avatar and partial avatars. Krishna, Rama, and Narasimha were full avatars (purna avatars), while others were partial avatars (ansha avatars).
NOTE: Shesha is generally depicted with a massive form that floats coiled in space, or on the ocean of bliss, to form the bed on which Vishnu lies. His name means “that which remains”, from the Sanskrit root śiṣ, because when the world is destroyed at the end of the kalpa, Shesha remains as he is.

Question 5

ĀRAṆYA KĀṆḌAM
02.17 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
दया f.

Answer 5

दया f. dayā दया [दय् भिदा-भावे अङ्] Pity, tenderness, compassion, mercy, sympathy; निर्गुणेष्वपि सत्त्वेषु दयां कुर्वन्ति साधवः H.1. 6; R.2.11; यत्नादपि परक्लेशं हर्तुं या हृदि जायते । इच्छा भूमि- सुरश्रेष्ठ सा दया परिकीर्तिता ॥. -Comp. -कर a. kind, sympathetic. (-रः) an epithet of Śiva. -कूटः, -कूर्चः epithets of Buddha. -वीरः 1 (in Rhet.) the sentiment of heroic compassion; the sentiment of heroism arising out of compassion; e. q. Jīmūtavāhana’s remark to Garuḍa in Nāg.:– शिरामुखैः स्यन्दत एव रक्तमद्यापि देहे मम मांसमस्ति । तृप्तिं न पश्यामि तथापि तावत् किं भक्षणात्त्वं विरतो गरुत्मन् ॥ cf. also R. G. under दयावीर -2 a. Very merciful man.