From: naik@nynexst.com (Jay Naik)
Subject: Re: Correction to `Bhavayami..' lyrics.
Organization: Nynex Science and Technology
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 03:13:29 GMT


In  Message-ID: <29E1EF34.21177@noiro.acs.uci.edu> (R. Jayakrishnan) :

>   critically. I find that there are some lines that I don't understand.
>   Anyone has some authoritative answers ?   May be a full line-by-line
>   translation ?  It seems to be a great piece for that..

>> bhAvukavitaraNaparA
>> pAngalIlA lasitam

	This is indeed a charming composition! I'll attempt here a partial 
translation and perhaps a word-by-word translation later when I locate my
copy of V.S. Apte's Sanskrit Dictionary :-(.

  bhaavuka vitaraNa para apaanga leelaa lasitam  
  
    giver of happiness, the superior one, 
    (him, who) playfully casts a side glance with grace
    (I think of..) 

  bhaavayaami raghuraamam... 
     
    I think of, raghuraama  (raama of the raghu clan)

  bhaavuka = happiness, vitaraNa = gift, para = superior, 
  apaanga = side glance, leelaa = play, lasitam = grace, shine, frolic

  (The accusative singular nouns, raamam, praanesham, etc. are all 
  connected with the verb bhaavayaami ("I think of") ) 

   The stanzas are quite obviously organized in the same order as the
   chapters of the RaamaayaNa, viz., baalakaanDa, ayodhyaakaanDa, etc.
   so I have relied on the events there to glean the meaning off these
   words!

>> dinakarAnvaya tilakam
>> divyagAdhi suta savanA

>>  What does the line `divyagAdhi..' mean ?


   (If you'll pardon my sloppy decomposition of the sandhi's !) : 

   dinakara anvaya tilakam divya gaadhisuta 
   savana avana rachita subaahu mukha vadham  
 
   The best of the solar race, the divine one, 
   the protector of the Sacrifice performed by the sage Vishwamitra,
   the slayer of Subaahu
    (him, I think of...) 

   dinakara = Sun (lit. day maker), anvaya = race, lineage
   tilakam = the best of, divya = divine, gaadhisuta = Son of Gaadhi
   savanam = sacrifice, avanam = protection, defense,
   rachitam = formed, arranged, mukha = face, head, vadham = struck, hit 

>> anakhamISa cApabhangam
>>  This is my typo. It should be `anagha..'  meaning `blemishless' ?
   
    Yes. anagha = a+agha = without blemish, Isa = lord (Siva) 
    chaapa = bow, bhangam = breaking,(the one who broke), 

>> vihatA abhishEkamadha
>> vipinagatam AryavAca
>>  Anyone knows exactly what this means ?

	My version : 

	vihata abhishekam atha vipina gatam aarya vaachaa
	sahita seetaa soumitreem

	(Him, who) After an aborted coronation,  went to the forest
	because of his father's sacred oath, with Seeta and LakshmaNa
	 (I think of..) bhaavayaami 

	vihata = aborted, abhishekam = coronation, atha = here, now
	vipina = forest, gatam = gone, aarya = father, vaachaa = oath
	sahita = with, soumitreem = son of sumitraa

>> anakha pampA tIrasangha-
>> tAanjanEya nabhOmaNi
>>  Again, `anagha' is the correct one.  I do have a doubt whether it is
>>  `tIrasangatAnjanEya..'.  `sangatam' would mean `on meeting'.

    	This is very nice!

	anagham pampaateera sangata aanjanEya (sangadaanjanEya) 
	nabhOmaNi tanuja sakhyakaram

	(Him, who) is the blemishless one, met aanjanEya 
	on the banks of the pampaa lake, and made friends with
	the son of Sun (sugreeva) 
	 (I think of...) 
	
        anagham = without blemish, teera = banks of lake (pampaa),
	sangata = met, united, nabhOmaNi = (lit. jewel of the sky - Sun), 
        tanuja = son, sakhya = friendship, karam = made 

>> jvalanabhUta janakasutA
>>  A couple of people pointed out to me that this could be `jvalanapUta'.
>>  I still think it is `jvalanabhUta', meaning `born from flames'.

     jvalana poota janaka sutaa sahita yaata saaketam
      
      (Him, who) returned to saaketa with seeta,who was purified by fire
       (I think of..)

       jvalana = flame, fire,  poota = purified, sutaa = daughter,
       yaata = returned, saaketam = ayodhyaa 

 Gotta go! more later...

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 Jayant Naik