Shloka 35

Devanagari script

अवमाना: सुकष्टाश्न॒ राजत: स्वजनात्‌ तथा | शारीरा मानसा वापि वेदना भृशदारुणा:,राजा और स्वजनोंकी ओरसे मुझे कई बार बड़े-बड़े कष्ट और अपमान उठाने पड़े हैं। तन और मनकी अत्यन्त भयंकर वेदनाएँ सहनी पड़ी हैं

Transliteration

avamānāḥ sukaṣṭāś ca rājataḥ svajanāt tathā | śārīrā mānasā vāpi vedanā bhṛśadāruṇāḥ ||

Translation

From the king, and likewise from my own kinsmen, I have repeatedly had to endure many humiliations and severe hardships. I have borne agonizing pains—both bodily and mental—exceedingly dreadful in their intensity.

Word by Word

अवमानाःinsults, humiliations

सुकष्टाश्चvery great hardships (and)

राजतःfrom the king

स्वजनात्from (one's) own people/kinsmen

तथाand also; likewise

शारीराःbodily

मानसाःmental

वाor

अपिalso; even

वेदनाःpains, agonies

भृशदारुणाःexceedingly dreadful/terrible

Speaker

सिद्ध उवाच

Characters & Entities

Siddha (speaker)

the king (rājā)

kinsmen/one’s own people (svajana)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse foregrounds the ethical weight of endurance: suffering can arise not only from enemies but from authority and one’s own kin. The Siddha’s testimony highlights the need for inner steadiness and discernment when facing humiliation and intense physical and mental pain.

What is happening in the narrative?

A Siddha speaks in the first person, recounting repeated experiences of insult and severe hardship inflicted by a king and by his own relatives, emphasizing the extremity of both bodily and psychological anguish he has had to bear.