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Albrecht WEZLER 2. Of the dictionaries it is, if I am not mistaken, only Apte's 16 which really contributes to a clarification. For he quotes the verse
kanthadadhne jale sthitvā tapaḥ kurvan pravartate/ unmajjakaḥ sa vijñeyas tāpaso lokapujitaḥ 11,
and in a later edition"7 the reference "Rām. 3.6.3" is added. But this is obviously an error because the passage of the Rāmāyaṇa referred to (Baroda Ed. 3.5.3) is entirely different although in a long list of designations of various ascetics 18 it does contain our unmajjakāḥ also. The commmentator Rāma, however, in his Tilaka seems to quote19 the beginning of this verse20, the text of which is given in full also in the Vācaspatya? and in the Sabdastomamahānidhi, but without any indication of the source. Other commentators substantially agree with Rāma, but add also some further interesting details. Thus Mādhavayoginas explains: kanthadadhnajale hemanteșu sthitvā tapassādhakāḥ (= unmajjakāḥ); Govindarāja says24: siromätram uddhrtya sada jalāvagādhāh, while Sivasahāyas formulates the same facts in yet another manner, viz. thus: kanthaparimitajale sthitirūpataponiratä”.
16. The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary..., 2nd ed., Bombay 1912.
17. Viz. The Revised and Enlarged Edition prepared by P.K. Gode and E.G. Karve, Poona 1957.
18. Cf. also M.G. Bhagat, Ancient Indian Asceticism, Delhi 1976, p. 262.
19. He does not, however, use an iti.
20. Viz. from kanthadadhne to kurvantah (he uses, of course, the plural).
21. Ed. by Sri Taranatha Tarkavachaspati, repr. Varanasi 1962; most probably this was also Apte's source!
22. Compiled by Tarkavāchaspati Sri Tärānātha Bhattacharya, Varanasi 1967, s.v.
23. Śrimadvālmikirāmāyaṇa with Amstakataka of Mādhavayogi (Vol. IV - Aranyakanda), ed. by N.S. Venkatanathacharya, Mysore 1965, p. 41.
24. Srimad Valmiki Rāmāyana, A Critical Edition with the Commentary of Sri Govindaraja ..., ed. by T. R. Krishnacharya and T. R. Vyasacharya, Bombay 1981, Aranyakānda, p. 20.- Cf. also the verse
hemante jāhnavitoye harakāmy adhifitale / akanthamagna dhyāyanti
sansthită candrasekhare //. quoted by M.R. Kale at the end of his notes on Kumāras. 5.26 (see below p. 226) (Kalidasa's Kumārasambhava ... ed. by M.R. Kale, repr. Delhi (etc.) 1967, p. [88]). His reference "S.P." (= Sivapurāņa) I have not however been able to verify.
25. Rāmāyana of Valmiki with the Commentaries Tilaka of Rāma, Rāmāyaṇasiromani of sivasahāya and Bhusana of Govindaraja, ed. by Shastri Shrinivasa Katti Mudholakara (repr. Parimal Sanskrit Series No. 11). Delhi 1983, Vol. III Aranyakānda, p. 1065.
