Shloka 36

चित्रसेन-समागमः / The Engagement with Citrasena and the Gandharvas

Devanagari script

मृदून्‌ सतः सत्यशीलान्‌ सत्यधर्मानुपालिन: । आशीविषानिव क्रुद्धान्‌ पतीन्‌ परिचराम्यहम्‌,“मेरे पति बड़े ही सज्जन और मृदुल स्वभावके हैं। सत्यवादी तथा सत्यधर्मका निरन्तर पालन करनेवाले हैं; तथापि क्रोधमें भरे हुए विषैले सर्पोंसे जिस प्रकार लोग डरते हैं, उसी प्रकार मैं अपने पतियोंसे डरती हुई उनकी सेवा करती हूँ

Transliteration

mṛdūn sataḥ satyaśīlān satyadharmānupālinaḥ | āśīviṣān iva kruddhān patīn paricārāmy aham ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “My husbands are truly gentle and virtuous—steadfast in truthfulness and constant in upholding the dharma of truth. Yet, when they are inflamed with anger, they become like venomous serpents; and so, fearing them as one fears such snakes, I continue to attend upon and serve my husbands.”

Word by Word

• {'mṛdūn': 'gentle, soft-natured (accusative plural)', 'sataḥ': 'good, virtuous, noble (accusative plural)', 'satyaśīlān': 'of truthful conduct

• whose disposition is truth (accusative plural)', 'satyadharma': 'the dharma of truth

• truth as a moral/religious duty', 'anupālinaḥ': 'those who observe/maintain faithfully (accusative plural)', 'āśīviṣān': 'venomous serpents (accusative plural)', 'iva': 'like, as if', 'kruddhān': 'angry, enraged (accusative plural)', 'patīn': 'husbands, lords (accusative plural)', 'paricārāmi': 'I attend upon, serve, wait upon', 'aham': 'I'}

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• patayaḥ (husbands)
• āśīviṣāḥ (venomous serpents)