1941 Gutka [ hindi ] / Pt. Yograj Prabhakar ji

March 31, 2008

Dear Kulbir bhai,

You are right.

In the 1942 urdu ed page 298 last line carried over to page 299, it says :

Budh ke teer ko mangal bud ka munh laga hai.

Therefore , in the 1941 ed, the word laga hai can be inserted in the space left with a long dash [ like the one we see for fill in the blanks exercises ].

The word is not sher, it is teer. The word budh ka teer makes sense because budh is associated with parvaaz and parinde. Since an arrow also flies through the air like parinde therefore it should be budh ka teer and not budh ka sher.

This mistake has brought out a very significant insight into the errors. It means that at times even the qatib, who was transcribing the hand written text on to the firma for litho printing, was not able to read what was written by Pandit ji. It is quite possible that a few mistakes got inserted due to this.

In the above case the qatib did the right thing by leaving a space by marking it with a long dash indicating that he has not been able to read what is written in the text. If a qatib uses his own discretion and adds a word then it would create a problem. That is what must have happened in the case of marlaj and murrabba. I suspect that the qatib misread the word marlaj as murabba and transcribed it as such.

Regards,

Varun

, "kulbir bance" <kulbirbance wrote:>> Gurudev > > the 1942 edition in hindi with me says budh ke sher/teer ko mangal> badh KA MUNH LAGA HAI JO mammu.....; please check in the original 1942 udu;> we might get a missing and correct words.> thanks for ur effort; it would have been better if yograj ji took ur> services as a proof reader (joking).> > sincerely> > > kulbirbance> > On 3/30/08, varun_trvd varun_trvd wrote:> >> > Respected Yograj ji,> >> > Page 288 line #1/2 reads:> >> > 'bhudh ke teer ko mangal bud ka munh mamu khandan aur aage aulad> > inki bhi tabah kare'> >> > In the original urdu text there is a long stretched dash [------]> > between the word 'budh ka kamunh' and ' mamu khandan'.> >> > By reading the line it is felt that some word is missing> > between 'budh ka munh' and 'mamu khandan'. To me it appears that the> > qatib did not understand the word written there and that is why he> > marked a long stretched dash signaling that there should be a word> > in between. The dash marked in the original is not a normal dash [-]> > it is a stretched long dash.> >> > In case you do not want to add a word like 'gina hai' or 'kaha hai'> > on your own then you should also leave that gap so that the reader> > can add a word himself.> >> > Another minor correction : page 280 line #3 the word 'se'. the matra> > is missing.> >> > With great regards,> >> > Varun Trivedi> >> > > >>