Library·Visnusarma: Pancatantra·4·4.56

Visnusarma: Pancatantra 4.56

Panc 4.56

मकर आह-कथम् एतत् ? वानरो ऽब्रवीत्- कथा ११ कामातुर-कथा अस्ति कस्मिंश्चिद् अधिष्ठाने कामातुरो नाम महाधनो वृद्ध-वणिक् । तेन मृत-भार्येण कामोपहत-चेतसा काचिन् निर्धन-वणिक्-सुता प्रभूतं वित्तं दत्त्वोद्वाहिता । अथ सा दुःखाभिभूता तं वृद्ध-वणिजं द्रष्टुम् अपि न शशाक । अथवा साध्व् इदम् उच्यते- श्वेतं पदं शिरसि यत् तु शिरोरुहाणां स्थानं परं परिभवस्य तद् एव पुंसाम् । आरोपितास्थि-शकलं परिहृत्य यान्ति चाण्डाल-कूपम् इव दूरतरं तरुण्यः

makara āha-katham etat ? vānaro 'bravīt- kathā 11 kāmātura-kathā asti kasmiṃścid adhiṣṭhāne kāmāturo nāma mahādhano vṛddha-vaṇik | tena mṛta-bhāryeṇa kāmopahata-cetasā kācin nirdhana-vaṇik-sutā prabhūtaṃ vittaṃ dattvodvāhitā | atha sā duḥkhābhibhūtā taṃ vṛddha-vaṇijaṃ draṣṭum api na śaśāka | athavā sādhv idam ucyate- śvetaṃ padaṃ śirasi yat tu śiroruhāṇāṃ sthānaṃ paraṃ paribhavasya tad eva puṃsām | āropitāsthi-śakalaṃ parihṛtya yānti cāṇḍāla-kūpam iva dūrataraṃ taruṇyaḥ

Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.

Sanskrit only: no published translation is held for this verse.

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Cite as: Visnusarma: Pancatantra 4.56, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Panc/4.56), after GRETIL, Visnusarma: Pancatantra (Version 1.01) Based on the ed.

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GRETIL 5_poetry/5_subhas/vispancu.htm — Visnusarma: Pancatantra (Version 1.01) Based on the ed. by Ramchandra Jha, 6th edition, Varanasi : Chowkhamba Vidyabhavan, 1991. (Vidyabhavan Sanskrit Grantha Mala, 17) Also consulted: ed. by M.R. Kale. Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, reprint. 1991. Input by Jan

GRETIL (SUB Göttingen), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — non-commercial use with attribution; the Companion is kept free while this corpus is held. Devanagari generated mechanically from GRETIL's IAST.

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