P231

Question 1

SUNDARA KĀṆḌAM
01.54 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
अन्तःपुरवर m./n.

Answer 1

THE CHOICEST PART (वर m./n.) OF THE KING’S PALACE/HAREM (अन्तःपुर m.)

Question 2

SUNDARA KĀṆḌAM
01.55 Anuṣṭubh (Śloka)
वनिका f.

Answer 2

वनिका f. a little wood, grove etc. (only in aśoka-v-; once in vanikāvanika -vanika- n.)

Question 3

SUNDARA KĀṆḌAM
01.58 Upajāti
पुस्फोर

Answer 3

पुस्फोर == 3RD, SG, PERF, ACT, INDIC
√स्फुर् (confer, compare sphar-) cl.6 P. () sphur/ati- (mc. also te-; parasmE-pada sphurat-and sphuramāṇa-[qq.vv.];only in present tense base, butSee apa-sphur-; grammar also perfect tense pusphora-, pusphure-; future sphuritā-, sphuriṣyati-; Aorist asphorīt-; preceding sphūryāt-; infinitive mood sphuritum-), to spurn ; to dart, bound, rebound, spring ; to tremble, throb, quiver, palpitate, twitch (as the nerves of the arm ), struggle etc. ; to flash, glitter, gleam, glisten, twinkle, sparkle etc. ; to shine, be brilliant or distinguished ; to break forth, burst out plainly or visibly, start into view, be evident or manifest, become displayed or expanded etc. ; to hurt, destroy : Causal sphorayati- (Aorist apusphurat-or apuspharat-), to stretch, draw or bend (a bow) ; to adduce an argument ; to cause to shine, eulogize, praise excessively ; sphurayati-, to fill with (instrumental case) : Desiderative pusphuriṣati- grammar : Intensive posphuryate-, posphorti-. ([ confer, compare Greek , ; Latin sperno; Lithuanian spi4rti; German sporo,spor,Sporn; English spur,spurn.])

Question 4

SUNDARA KĀṆḌAM
01.58 Upajāti
धरासुता f.

Answer 4

LIT. 'DAUGHTER OF EARTH'
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धरासुता  f.  [ND] A NAME FOR THE GODDESS DURGA, HERE USED == 'Sītā', CONSIDERED AS AN INCARNATION OF "THE GODDESS", THE CONSORT OF VISHNU
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धरा	f. "bearer, supporter", the earth

Question 5

SUNDARA KĀṆḌAM
01.58 Upajāti
अब्धि m.

Answer 5

अब्धि m. abdhiḥ अब्धिः [आपः धीयन्ते अत्र, धा-कि] 1 The ocean, receptacle of water; (fig. also) दुःख˚, कार्य˚, ज्ञान˚ &c.; store or reservoir of anything. -2 A pond, lake. -3 (In Math.) A symbolical expression for the number 7; sometimes for 4. -Comp. -अग्निः the submarine fire. -कफः, -फेन: 1 froth, foam. -2 the cuttle-fish bone, being regarded as the froth of the ocean. -ज a. born in the ocean. (-जः) 1 the moon. -2 The conch. -जम् Salt. (-जौ) (dual) N. of the Aśvins. (-जा) 1 spirituous liquor (produced from the ocean). -2 the Goddess Lakṣmī. -झषः a sea-fish. -डिण्डिरः froth, foam. -द्वीपा 1 the earth. 2 a portion of land surrounded by the ocean. -नगरी N. of Dwārakā, the capital of Kṛiṣṇa. -नवनीतकः 1 the moon (the butter of the ocean). -मण्डूकी the pearloyster. -शयनः N. of Viṣṇu (so called from his resting in the ocean at the destruction and renovation of the world). -सारः a gem.

DISTINGUISH THIS WORD FROM
abda अब्द a. [अपो ददाति, दा-क; said in Uṇ 4.98 to be from अब; अबतीत्यब्दः] Giving water. -ब्दः 1 A cloud. -2 A year (in this sense n. also) व्योम्नो$ब्दं भूतशाबल्यं भुवः पङ्कमपां मलम् Bhāg.1.24.34. अब्दमेकं चरेद्भक्तः Mb. 13.17.74. -3 N. of a grass (मुस्ता). -4 N. of a mountain. cf… अब्दो मेघे च दर्पणे । प्रभवादौ पर्वते च …Nm. -Comp. -अर्धम् half a year. -तन्त्रम् Name of an astronomical work. -वाहनः N. of Śiva. -शतम् a century. -सारः a kind of camph

Question 6

SUNDARA KĀṆḌAM
01.57 Vaṃśastha
चिराय

Answer 6

चिराय (āya-) dative case ind. for a long time ; चिराय ind. after a long time, at last, finally, too late