Setubandha

SR No.: 001384
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Krishnakant Handiqui
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1976
Total Pages: 812
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Literature
File Size: 14 MB

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INTRODUCTION
has been adapted for the purpose by inserting in it the word anuraa.'
As will be seen from the Extracts, the order of verses in the Southern recension is in a few cases different from that of the other recensions. It may also be noted that the verse 3.61 appears in the Southern recension in Canto 8 after verse 233; while the verse 10.3 occurs in Canto 12 after verse 29.
There are some cases of verses occurring in one recension and missing in another. A good example is provided by Goldschmidt's Anhang showing fourteen verses not explained by Rāmadāsa. Almost all of them (1-13) belong to the South Indian recension, being included in the commentaries of Krsņavipra and Madhava and those of Krşņadāsa, Mudamalla and Devarāta as far as they are available to us. It is noteworthy that at least four of these verses occur also in the Bengal recension represented by Kulanātha; and they are, in fact, included in the text accompanying the Setutattvacandrika.3 One of these verses forming part of Sugrīva's speech in Canto 3 is reproduced below.
गरुए वि समरकज्जे विअसन्ते चिअ रसं लहन्ति समत्था ।
बद्धप्फलम्मि कुसुमे वोलीणो होइ महुअराण अवसरो ॥ 3.6
The valiant rejoice when an arduous martial enterprise is in full swing. The time for bees is past when flowers culminate in fruit.'
The last verse in Goldschmidt's Anhang, cited in an imperfect form from his ms. C, is variously read, and has not
1 See Extracts 12.97, 98. 2 The arrangement is slightly different in Devarāta, 3 See Calcutta edition of Rāvanavaha-mahākāvyam 3.6; 5.49, 72; 8.58. 4 Kronavipra reads guruammi. 5 Sugriva urges his followers to take an active part in Räma's expedition before it
attains its objective without their cooperation.