Dharmanand Kosambi-The Essential Writings by Meera Kosambi

Author:Meera Kosambi [Kosambi, Meera]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9788178244051
Publisher: Permanent Black
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

1 This is a translation of Dharmanand Kosambi’s Nivedan, Mumbai: Manoranjak Grantha Prakashan, 1924. The footnotes are mine. The few footnotes that exist in the original text have been incorporated within round brackets into the body of the present translation.—M.K.

2 The word grihastha has been translated as ‘householder’ or ‘gentleman’, depending upon the context. ‘Monks’ is a translation of bhikshus.

3 The suffix ‘bhat’ or ‘bhatji’ is used as an honorific for Brahmin priests.

4 ‘Rule of three’ is a translation of trairashik.

5 Kadambari is a long story in Sanskrit by Banabhatta.

6 The Arabian Nights was translated into Marathi largely by Krishnashastri Chiplunkar, father of Vishnushastri.

7 A gudgudi is a small, rudimentary version of the hookah, made of wooden pipes and coconut shells.

8 Sant Tukaram lived in the seventeenth century and is regarded as one of the foremost leaders of the devotional Varkari movement, about equal in stature to its founder Sant Dnyaneshwar of the late thirteenth century (who wrote a Marathi commentary on the Bhagavad Gita entitled Dnyaneshwari). Sant Tukaram is known respectfully as Tukaram-buva—buva being an honorific suffix attached to the names of religious teachers—or its abbreviation Tukoba.

9 The Six Enemies are: sexual passion, anger, desire, love, pride, and envy or jealousy.

10 ‘Awning’ here is a translation of mandap.

11 Agrashalas are hereditary houses donated to Brahmins.

12 The word used for prostitutes here, kalavantins, originally probably denoted devadasis.

13 Tamasha here denotes a form of folk theatre with a largely erotic and vulgar content.

14 Abhishek denotes the very slow dripping of water on the image of a deity.

15 Moropant was the most famous and prolific of the scholarly or ‘pandit’ poets of the eighteenth century. His contemporary Vaman Pandit was also renowned. Poets of this tradition of Sanskritized poetry were also known as ‘pant poets’ (pant-kavi) in contrast with devotional poets (sant-kavi).

16 ‘Public eating house’ is a translation of khaanaaval.

17 Sanskrit for ‘O Respected One, give me some food’.

18 ‘Country’ here denotes the region of Goa.

19 Matunga was then a sparsely populated part of north Mumbai.

20 Bal-bodh: ‘Advice to Children’, a Marathi magazine.

21 Kerala-Kokil : ‘Nightingale of Kerala’, a Marathi magazine.

22 ‘Caste-based dispute’ is a translation of gramanya. Crossing the sea was then thought to make a Hindu lose his caste, and thus his religion. This could be rectified by an expiatory ritual, failing which the person—and those who dined with him—could be excommunicated.

23 An act to signify purification of the area.

24 The second day of the bright fortnight in the month of Jyeshtha of the Hindu lunar calendar.

25 The ninth day of the bright fortnight of the month of Shravan. The date also mentions the year according to Shalivahan Shaka, a calendar which starts in AD 78.

26 ‘Punya-pattan’ is supposedly the old name for Pune.

27 The tonga, a small one-horse carriage, was much seen in Pune until about 1950. The old part of Pune, the ‘city’ proper, is divided into peths or wards; the core peths are named after the seven days of the week, and the outlying ones after the peshwa’s eminent sardars (such as Raste) or officials who settled them.

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