Some Obscure Expressions in The Mrcchakatika

The Mrcchakauka has some obscure expressions and in spite of attempts made by annotators and translaters the obscurity in a number of cases has not been finally dispelled So efforts in this direction have to be kept up. It is in this spirit that a few such expressions have been taken up here for consideration

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पोद्दार मृच्छकटिक के उन प्रयोगों पर विचार करते हैं जिन्हें टीकाकार और अनुवादक अब तक स्पष्ट नहीं कर सके। शकार के 'शोस्तर्क' तथा 'लस्तकं' को वे अपनी ही गाथा को स्तुतिपूर्वक एवं कलापूर्वक दोहराने का आदेश मानते हैं, और अन्य कई दुरूह स्थलों की नई व्याख्या प्रस्तुत करते हैं। Poddar takes up expressions in the Mrcchakatika that annotators have left obscure. He reads the sostarka and lastaka of Sakara as instructions to recite his own verse with praise and with artifice, and proposes fresh explanations for several further cruxes in the play.

Written by the archive’s cataloguers, not by the author.