[Advaita-l] Requesting reference for this verse

[V Subrahmanian]

Namaste.

Thank you Sri Rao for the reply.  Is it possible that the verse(s) could be
traced to some 'champU' kAvyam?  In the case of the 'duryodhana' verse, it
is *quoted* in the Panchadashi (6.176 and not 6.76 as I had earlier stated),
a work that is at least over five/six centuries old.

A member informed me by private email that the 'duryodhana' verse is found
in 'PAnDavagItA' and gave a URL:

http://www.hindujagaran.org/Scriptures/Gita/PandavGita.html

Verse 20 is the one there. But then, is the above 'gItA' a part of
MahabhAratha or any other work?

Regards,
subrahmanian.v



On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Shrisha Rao <shrao at nyx.net> wrote:

> El feb 24, 2011, a las 11:53 a.m., V Subrahmanian escribió:
>
> > Namaste.
> >
> > Here is a verse popularly known as Duryodhana's expression of his state
> of
> > mind.  I would like to have the reference number of this verse in the
> > Mahabharatha:
> >
> > जानामि धर्मं न च मे प्रवृत्तिः जानाम्यधर्मं न च मे निवृत्तिः |
> > केनापि देवेन हृदि स्थितेन यथा नियुक्तोऽस्मि तथा करोमि ॥
> >
> > This verse is quoted by Swami Vidyaranya in the Panchadashi 6.76.
>
> It is a well-known verse and is cited often even today, but it is not found
> in the BORI edition, or to the best of my knowledge, even in other common
> editions (Kumbakonam, Gita Press).  Its status is thus somewhat similar to
> another well-known verse:
>
> अपि स्वर्णमयी लङ्का न मे लक्ष्मण रोचते ।
> जननी जन्मभूमिश्च स्वर्गादपि गरीयसी ॥
>
> -- which cannot be traced in the extant Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shrisha Rao
>
> > subrahmanian.v
>
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