Maybe his ritual role - alluded in ṚV 1,31.4, cf. ŚBM 11, 5, 1.14-17. See MBh: 01,070.016a purūravās tato vidvān ilāyāṃ samapadyata 01,070.017a trayodaśa samudrasya dvīpān aśnan purūravāḥ 01,070.017c amānuṣair vṛtaḥ sattvair mānuṣaḥ san mahāyaśāḥ ... 01,070.021c ānināya kriyārthe 'gnīn yathāvad vihitāṃs tridhā
He is also the interlocutor of two discussions about rājadharma in MBh 12, 73-74 Le 5 juin 2023 à 09:41, Dr. Dominik A. Haas, BA MA <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> a écrit : Dear colleagues, I have a brief question regarding the interpretation of a passage in the Mahabhārata. In II 69.15, as the Pāṇḍavas are about to go into exile, Vidura says to Yudhiṣṭhira: purūravasam ailaṃ tvaṃ buddhyā jayasi pāṇḍava / “With (your) resolve/intellect, you surpass Purūravas Aila, O Pāṇḍava!” As I understand it, this means that Yudhiṣṭhira’s buddhi is greater than Purūravas’s. Purūravas is of course well known for his affair with the apsaras Urvaśī; I wonder, however, what buddhi refers to here. How would you interpret this passage? Below I attach MBh II 69.11–16 and Van Buitenen’s translation. Thank you for your time and best regards D. Haas 02,069.011a eṣa vai sarvakalyāṇaḥ samādhis tava bhārata 02,069.011c nainaṃ śatrur viṣahate śakreṇāpi samo 'cyuta 02,069.012a himavaty anuśiṣṭo 'si merusāvarṇinā purā 02,069.012c dvaipāyanena kṛṣṇena nagare vāraṇāvate 02,069.013a bhṛgutuṅge ca rāmeṇa dṛṣadvatyāṃ ca śaṃbhunā 02,069.013c aśrauṣīr asitasyāpi maharṣer añjanaṃ prati 02,069.013d*0596_01 kalmāṣītīrasaṃsthasya gatas tvaṃ śiṣyatāṃ bhṛgoḥ 02,069.014a draṣṭā sadā nāradasya dhaumyas te 'yaṃ purohitaḥ 02,069.014c mā hārṣīḥ sāṃparāye tvaṃ buddhiṃ tām ṛṣipūjitām 02,069.015a purūravasam ailaṃ tvaṃ buddhyā jayasi pāṇḍava 02,069.015c śaktyā jayasi rājño 'nyān ṛṣīn dharmopasevayā 02,069.016a aindre jaye dhṛtamanā yāmye kopavidhāraṇe 02,069.016c visarge caiva kaubere vāruṇe caiva saṃyame <LU2Akavj1oGOKUJP.png> __________________ Dr. Dominik A. Haas, BA MA [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | ORCID 0000-0002-8505-6112 <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8505-6112> | academia.edu DominikAHaas <https://univie.academia.edu/DominikAHaas> | twitter DominikAHaas <https://twitter.com/DominikAHaas> | hcommons DominikAHaas <https://hcommons.org/members/DominikAHaas/> ÖGRW<https://www.univie.ac.at/oegrw/> | DMG<https://dmg-web.de/page/home_en> | SDN<https://stb.univie.ac.at/publikationsreihen/sammlung-de-nobili-sdn/> | WPU<https://philology.org/> Lecturer, University of Vienna (2023–) DOC Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences (2020–2022) Recent publications: – Translating the Gāyatrī-Mantra https://alt.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/10.18573/alt.57 – Puṣpikā 6. Proceedings of the 12th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Vienna, 2021). https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1133 – Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas. A Philological-Historical Study. Dissertation. https://doi.org/10.25365/thesis.72156 <foasaslogosmall.png><https://foasas.org/> The Initiative for Fair Open Access Publishing in South Asian Studies foasas.org<https://foasas.org/> | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | tweet #FOASAS<http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%20%23FOASAS> _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology ––––––––––––––––––– Christophe Vielle<https://uclouvain.be/en/directories/christophe.vielle> Louvain-la-Neuve
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