Shloka 27

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

Devanagari script

मक्षिकादंशमशकानू्‌ सिंहान्‌ व्याप्रान्‌ सरीसूपान्‌ | प्राप्रोत्यनियत: पार्थ नियतस्तान्‌ न पश्यति,भीमसेन! जो अपने मन और इन्द्रियोंपर संयम नहीं रखता, ऐसे मनुष्यको वहाँ जानेपर मक्खी, डाँस, मच्छर, सिंह, व्याप्र और सर्पोका सामना करना पड़ता है, परंतु जो संयम- नियमसे रहनेवाला है, उसे उन जन्तुओंका दर्शनतक नहीं होता

Transliteration

makṣikādaṃśamaśakān siṃhān vyāghrān sarīsṛpān | prāpnoty aniyataḥ pārtha niyatas tān na paśyati bhīmasena ||

Translation

Yudhiṣṭhira said: “O Pārtha, one who is undisciplined—who does not restrain his mind and senses—encounters flies, gadflies, mosquitoes, lions, tigers, and creeping serpents when he goes there. But the self-controlled man, living by restraint and rule, does not even behold those creatures.”

Word by Word

• {'makṣikā': 'fly', 'daṃśa': 'gadfly

• biting fly', 'maśaka': 'mosquito', 'siṃha': 'lion', 'vyāghra': 'tiger', 'sarīsṛpa': 'creeping creature

• reptile (esp. serpent)', 'prāpnoti': 'attains

• encounters', 'aniyataḥ': 'unrestrained

• undisciplined', 'niyataḥ': 'restrained

• self-controlled', 'na paśyati': 'does not see

• does not behold', 'pārtha': 'son of Pṛthā

• an address to Arjuna', 'bhīmasena': 'Bhīma

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Pārtha (Arjuna)
• Bhīmasena (Bhīma)
• flies (makṣikā)
• gadflies (daṃśa)
• mosquitoes (maśaka)
• lions (siṃha)
• tigers (vyāghra)
• serpents/reptiles (sarīsṛpa)