Sambodhi 2011 Vol 34

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Vol. XXXIV, 2011
Observations on the use of Kr hardly serve to unravel the import of the original. The so-called interpretation leaves us in the dark about the precise meanings of the root in the two sentences. It is evident from the tenor of the expressions that Kr has been used here in the sense of 'leaving' and 'putting on respectively. It accords with their spirit to render kartum as tyaktum and kriyatām as dhāryatām. While the latter sense of the root is not unknown, the former is unique in a way.
Karomi in TEE 7 aro cafq47 is not amenable to a coherent interpretation. As doşam and karomi do not mix well, the expression is reduced to a jumble of words. The situation is saved in case Kr is taken here to mean 'to find'. 'Prince, I do not find fault with you.' This seems to be the only sensible interpretation that can be put on the verse.
The note, though fairly detailed, does not exhaust all the meanings that Kr is potent enough to yield. Patient investigations are sure to bring out a plethora of peculiar meanings of the root. Kr is a virtual Kāmadhenu.
Notes 1. SATYA VRAT, On Some Meanings of Kr, Journal of Oriental Institute, M. S.
University, Baroda, Vol. 43, Pts.1-2, P. 7-13. Vāmanapurana (SM), XXI. 20-21, as quoted in An Epic Pilgrimage (Devendra Handa),
Aryan Books International, New Delhi, 2004, p. 75, fn 176 3. Rgveda (RV.), Vedic Samsodhan Mandal, Poona, 1933, X. 124.4 4. Bhāgavatapurāna, Gita Press, Gorakhpur, V.S.20.59, IX. 16.1 5. Rgveda, op. cit, VII. 16.6 6. Ibid., 1.102.4 7. Atharvaveda, V1.53.3 8. Ibid, VI.57.1 9. Rāmāyaṇa, Gujarati Printing Press, 1.13.34 10. Ibid., 1.63.1 11. Manusmrti, Nirnaya Sagar Press, IV. 54 12. Ibid, VIII. 318 13. Atharvaveda, III. 29.3 14. Arthaśāstra, ed. Udayavira Shastri, Delhi, 1970, II. 21.22 15. Ibid, II. 21.24 16. Rāmāyaṇa, op.cit, I. 18.22 17. Pañcatantra, ed., Jwala Prasad Mishra, Bombay, 1923, p. 493 18. Siddhānta kaumudi, Vol.II, Calcutta, 1920, p. 25 19. Rāmāyaṇa, op. cit, II. 37.19 20. Rgveda, op. cit, I. 10.9