Library·Visnusarma: Pancatantra·5·5.22

Visnusarma: Pancatantra 5.22

Panc 5.22

ब्राह्मण आह-किम् एतत् ? सा प्राह- कथा २ लोभाविष्ट-चक्र-धर-कथा कस्मिंश्चिद् अधिष्ठाने चत्वारो ब्राह्मण-पुत्राः परस्परं मित्रतां गता वसन्ति स्म । ते चापि दारिद्र्योपहताः परस्परं मन्त्रं चक्रुः-अहो धिग् इयं दरिद्रता ! उक्तं च- वरं वनं व्याघ्र-गजादि-सेवितं जनेन हीनं बहु-कण्टकावृतम् । तृणानि शय्या परिधान-वल्कलः न बन्धु-मध्ये धन-हीन-जीवितम्

brāhmaṇa āha-kim etat ? sā prāha- kathā 2 lobhāviṣṭa-cakra-dhara-kathā kasmiṃścid adhiṣṭhāne catvāro brāhmaṇa-putrāḥ parasparaṃ mitratāṃ gatā vasanti sma | te cāpi dāridryopahatāḥ parasparaṃ mantraṃ cakruḥ-aho dhig iyaṃ daridratā ! uktaṃ ca- varaṃ vanaṃ vyāghra-gajādi-sevitaṃ janena hīnaṃ bahu-kaṇṭakāvṛtam | tṛṇāni śayyā paridhāna-valkalaḥ na bandhu-madhye dhana-hīna-jīvitam

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 5.22, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/Panc/5.22), 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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