Shloka 13

Dhanañjaya-viraha-śoka and the Resolve to Enter Gandhamādana (धनंजय-विरह-शोकः गन्धमादन-प्रवेश-संकल्पश्च)

Devanagari script

सततं य: क्षमाशील: क्षिप्पमाणो5प्यणीयसा । ऋजुमार्गप्रपन्नस्य शर्मदाताभयस्य च,जो छोटे लोगोंके आक्षेप करनेपर भी सदा क्षमाशील होनेके कारण उस आक्षेपको सह लेता है तथा सरल मार्गसे अपनी शरणमें आनेवाले लोगोंको सुख पहुँचाकर उन्हें अभयदान देता है, वही अर्जुन, जब कोई कुटिल मार्गका आश्रय ले छल-कपटसे उसपर आघात करना चाहता है तब वह वज्धारी इन्द्र ही क्यों न हो, उसके लिये काल और विषके समान भयंकर हो जाता है

Transliteration

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | satataṃ yaḥ kṣamāśīlaḥ kṣipyamāṇo 'py aṇīyasā | ṛjumārga-prapannasya śarmadātā 'bhayasya ca | sa eva pārtha yadā kaścid vakramārgaṃ samāśritya chala-kapaṭair abhihantuṃ icchati | vajradhara indro 'pi tasya kāla-viṣa-samaṃ bhayaṅkaraḥ bhavati ||

Translation

Yudhiṣṭhira said: “He who is ever patient—who endures even the taunts of the petty—who grants refuge to those who come by the straight path, giving them comfort and freedom from fear: that very man, O Arjuna, when someone resorts to crooked ways and seeks to strike him through deceit and fraud, becomes for that aggressor as dreadful as Death and poison—even if the attacker were Indra himself, wielder of the thunderbolt.”

Word by Word

सततम्always, constantly

यःwho

क्षमाशीलःforbearing, patient

क्षिप्यमाणःbeing reviled/abused (being hurled at)

अपिeven, although

अणीयसाby something very small/slight (i.e., by a slight cause/means)

ऋजुमार्गप्रपन्नस्यof one who has resorted to the straight path

शर्मदातृgiver of comfort/peace

अभयस्यof fearlessness/safety

चand

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Arjuna (Pārtha)

Indra (Vajradhara)

Kāla (Death/Time)

Viṣa (poison)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Sandhi Notes