रक्ष् to pause

[Prakash Raj Pandey]

नमो विद्वद्भ्यः 

Here is a verse from the 5th canto of Bhagavata.Mahatmyam --

दिनान्ते रक्षिता गाथा तदा चित्रं बभूव ह ।

वंशैकग्रन्थिभेदोऽभूत् सशब्दं पश्यतां सताम् ॥४८॥

Here the usual meaning of रक्ष्  to protect does not work. It would be better to say रक्ष् also connotes to pause , and say --- When in the evening, story was paused for the day, ....

Regards, 
Prakash

[Abhishek Mehta]

It could be a spelling mistake.

The first word is probably दिनान्तरेक्षिता instead. It doesn't change the meaning and meter of the verse and doesn't require changing of the original meaning of Dhatus.

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[Shashi Joshi]

raksh here means 'preserve', keep it as it is, to be resumed later.

so pause is indeed correct.

Thanks,

~ Shashi

[Ramanath Pandey]

The interpretive difficulty arises in Chapter Five of the Bhāgavata Māhātmya, verse 48:

दिनान्ते रक्षिता गाथा तदा चित्रं बभूव ह ।
वंशैकग्रन्थिभेदोऽभूत् सशब्दं पश्यतां सताम् ॥४८॥

Here, the usual meaning of रक्ष्, “to protect,” does not adequately convey the narrative sense. The expression “रक्षिता गाथा” is best understood contextually as “the narration was paused for the day,” with its continuation reserved for the following day.
The verse may therefore be translated:
“When, at the close of the day, the narration was paused, a remarkable event occurred: one joint of the bamboo burst open with a sound before the assembled onlookers.”

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