Shloka 30

Dāna-Śreṣṭhatā: Abhaya, Anugraha, and the Ethics of Honoring the Worthy (दानश्रेष्ठता: अभय-अनुग्रह-विप्रपूजा)

Devanagari script

एवमेतद्‌ यथा<<वत्थ व्वं ब्राद्मण्यं तात दुर्लभम्‌ | ब्राह्मणे सति चर्षित्वमृषित्वे च तपस्विता,तात! तप और ब्राह्मणत्वके सम्बन्धमें तुम जैसा उदगार प्रकट कर रहे थे, वह बिलकुल ठीक है। वास्तवमें ब्राह्मणत्व दुर्लभ है। ब्राह्मण होनेपर भी ऋषि होना और ऋषि होनेपर भी तपस्वी होना तो और भी कठिन है

Transliteration

evam etad yathāttha tvaṁ brāhmaṇyaṁ tāta durlabham | brāhmaṇe sati ca ṛṣitvam ṛṣitve ca tapasvitā ||

Translation

Cyavana said: “It is exactly as you have spoken, dear one: true brahminhood is hard to attain. And even when one is a brāhmaṇa, to be a ṛṣi is rarer still; and even when one is a ṛṣi, to be genuinely austere and self-disciplined is rarer yet.”

Word by Word

एवम्thus, in this manner

एतत्this (is)

यथाas, just as

आत्थyou said

त्वम्you

ब्राह्मण्यंBrahminhood, the state of being a Brahmin

तातdear one, son (term of address)

दुर्लभम्rare, difficult to obtain

ब्राह्मणेin/when (one is) a Brahmin

सतिbeing (so), existing; when there is/when one is

चand

ऋषित्वम्the state of being a rishi

ऋषित्वेin/when (there is) rishihood

चand

तपस्विताasceticism; being a tapasvin

तातdear one (address)

Speaker

च्यवन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Cyavana

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes