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Nalini Balbir
Jambū-jyoti
In a beloved one what is the thing resembling a ripe bimba-fruit that is drunk by the mouth of a lover ? --The lip adharah
The two other such instances are : sa-mada-āsyah / samadāsyah (2.54) and a-hāsyatām/ ahāsyatām (2.55).
6. In Jinavallabha's Praśnottara there are three instances which come under the caption nāmākhyāta-jāti according to the commentary of mss Al and A2, while the avacūri going with the printed edition gives them the more general label dvir-gata-jāti (for JP 81, 83) or vyasta-samasta-jāti (for JP 66). The first two correspond to the definition given above and are identical with the last pattern described for the VMM.
* prcchāmi jala-nidhir "aham kim akaravam sapadi śasadharābhyudaye ?”
alam udyamaih suktinām ity ukte kīdrśaḥ kaḥ syāt ? (JP 81)
I, the ocean, I ask : "What did I immediately do at moonrise ?"-You gleamed20 samudalasah
When he is told : “Enough exertion for good people !”, who would be how ?—The idle fellow (would be) full of joy sa-mud alasah
* rataye kim akurvātāṁ parasparam dampati cirān militau ? mokşa-patha-prasthita-matiḥ pariharati ca kīdrśīm janatām ? (JP 83)
What did a couple do mutually concerning love once they met after a long time ?-Both of them rushed (to make love) atattvaratám
What type of crowd does the one who has engaged himself on the path of Liberation avoid ?-(The crowd) who finds pleasure in what goes against the (true) principles a-tattva-ratām
In this verse, the discrepancy between the tense used in the question (the imperfect) and the one used in the answer (aorist) is worth noting. It is unusual in the context of riddles, but easily explainable within classical Sanskrit where both tenses are more or less freely exchanged.
The next instance shows how basic patterns are liable to variations. Instead of one verbal form, there are two here, which are then combined to make a rather sophisticated compound :
* tanvi ! tvam netra-türnodgata -madana-sarākāra-cañcat-katākşair laksył-krtya smarärtän sapadi kim akaroh subhru ! tīksnair abhīksnam ?
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