Love or Leave Bhartuharis Dilemma

Author(s): Ashok Aklujkar
Publisher: ZZ_Anusandhan

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BETHETA-80 • 11 the denotative or referential words, especially the common vocabulary or the technical jargon of the field (important though they are), but the particles etc. A clever person can imitate the common vocabulary and technical jargon, but while he is busy doing that his 'slip in terms of particles and syntax is likely to show. Now, if with this methodological 'detective consideration in mind, we study BH's poems, we find that the references to ornaments are surprisingly far and few in between. Also, they are restricted to muktā 'pearls,' muktā-jāla 'pearl strings', mostly ‘necklaces,' divyāmbara or pratanu vasana 'fine garment', kundala 'earring,' kankuņa or lila-valaya ‘bracelet,' keyūra 'arm ornament, hāru 'necklace,' mekhalā or kāñci 'girdle, waistband,' and nūpura ‘anklet (stanzas 7, 21, 76, 80, 97, 117, 139, 147, 183, 326, 326, 349). Further, a preference for natural ornaments is seen (e.g., stanzas 54, 134, 349, 144, 297, indirectly also 141) as in Kalidasa. For example, in a poem reminiscent of Omar Khayyam's most well-known rubai,
“Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, a flask of wine, a book of verse---- and thou beside me singing in the wilderness — and wilderness is paradise now."28 BH says: mälati sirasi jrmbhanonmukhi, candanaṁ vapusi kunkumāvilam / vakşasi priyatama mudālasā, svarga eșu parisista āgataḥ 1/116/1 "White Jasmine about to bloom in her hair; sandal paste mixed with saffron on her body; my dearest one, languorous in her intoxicating youth,