TITUS
Text: Vikr. 
Vikrama-carita

Metrical Recension


On the basis of the edition by
F. Edgerton,
Vikrama 's adventures or
The Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne,
Part 2: Text, in Four Parallel Recensions,
Cambridge 1926,

entered by Peter Olivier and Jost Gippert
and corrected by Vidyanath Rao;
TITUS version by Jost Gippert,
Frankfurt a/M, 6.12.1997 / 28.2.1998 / 21.6.1998 / 15.3.2000 / 1.6.2000 / 3.12.2008 / 21.4.2012






Chapter: F1 
Sanskrit text of Vikrama-carita
Presented in four horizontally parallel recensions
I. Frame-Story: First Section
Invocation, and announcement of theme

Metrical Recension of I


Paragraph: 1 
Line: 1    purā laṅkeśvarabʰujākeyūranikaṣopale
Line: 2    
śaile śailendrasutayā jagade jagadīśitā:
Line: 3    
deva, citrāḥ katʰāḥ kāścid antarāyasya mocanīḥ
Line: 4    
mahyaṃ śuśrūṣave brūhi, manaḥprahlādinīḥ śubʰāḥ.
Line: 5    
atʰo 'vāca mahādevo bʰavānīṃ prītamānasaḥ,
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śiraścandrām̐śuniṣyandasudʰāmadʰurayā girā:
Line: 7    
asti sinhāsanaṃ kiṃcid gūhanīyaṃ mahattaram;
Line: 8    
paritas tatra vidyante dvātrim̐śat sālabʰañjikāḥ.
Line: 9    
kadācid ucite kāle kalākuśalasaṃkule
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bʰojarājasabʰāmadʰye katʰayanti sma tāḥ katʰāḥ.   devy uvāca:
Line: 11    
kasye 'dam āsanaṃ divyaṃ, deva? kiṃrūpalakṣaṇam?
Line: 12    
kutra stʰānaṃ bʰavet pūrvaṃ? vam̐śe kasya mahīpateḥ
Line: 13    
prāpa bʰojamahīpālaḥ kasmād etad varāsanam
Line: 14    
tac citram iva me bʰāti; pūrvam ārabʰya me vada!
Line: 15    
evam ukto mahādevo babʰāṣe dantakāntibʰiḥ
Line: 16    
maulī candramasaḥ kurvann ākasmikamahodayam.

Line: 17    
iti sim̐hāsanadvātrim̐śikāyām pratʰamā lāpanikā




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