The Present Condition of Sanskrit Studies in India: A Reply to Dr. A. A. Macdonell (Classic Reprint), Bhandarkar Shridhar Ramkrishna

The same fact is ignored by Monier Williams, Dr. Manda nells predecessor in the chair of the Boden Professor, in. Hisr explanation of firm first at? Firm? Mm his 2nd edition, p. He could not see the absurdity: of the idea of Kalidasa ever thinking of purposely going out of his way to turn the moon into a female. Though it was a man who was to be compared to the The passage, he says, means If the constellation. Vi akha is eager for a union with the moon why need we wonder at Sakuntalas desire-to be united with a prince of the Lunar race probe bly means to compare himself to the moon and Sakuntala to Vi akhfi. That: further implies that the hero Dushyauta believes that he was; a person whom Sakuntala must naturally love on account 06. His lineage. I wonder what lawman it was that fated Kali-z dasa to be handed down to posterity by a Boden Professor as so utterly ignorant of a lovers heart. Moreover just as the; Professor has neglected the gender and made the masculine Dushyauta answer to the feminine Sa ankalekhd, he has also: neglected the dual of Vi akhfi and identified the two stars with Sakuntala. Vite/eke stands of course for the two friends and Sa ankalekha for Sakuntala.

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