Shloka 25

कृपोपदेशः — द्रौणेरनिद्रा च

Kṛpa’s Counsel and Drauṇi’s Sleepless Resolve

Devanagari script

प्रत्यक्षमपि ते सर्व तन्मे मर्माणि कृन्तति । कथं हि मादृशो लोके मुहूर्तमपि जीवति,“इन पापियोंने विशेषत: मेरे पिताजीको जिस प्रकार मारा था, वह सब आपने प्रत्यक्ष देखा है। वह घटना मेरे मर्मस्थानोंको छेदे डालती है। ऐसी अवस्थामें मेरे-जैसा वीर इस जगतमें दो घड़ी भी कैसे जीवित रह सकता है?

Transliteration

pratyakṣam api te sarva tan me marmāṇi kṛntati | kathaṃ hi mādṛśo loke muhūrtam api jīvati ||

Translation

Even though you witnessed it all directly, that very event keeps cutting into my vital core. For how could a man like me remain alive in this world even for a moment, after the way those sinners—above all—killed my father?

Word by Word

प्रत्यक्षम्directly, before (one's) eyes

अपिeven, also

तेof you / your

सर्वम्all (that)

तत्that

मेmy / of me

मर्माणिvital spots, tender points

कृन्ततिcuts, rends, pierces

कथम्how?

हिindeed, for

मादृशःone like me, such as I

लोकेin the world

मुहूर्तम्a moment, a muhūrta

अपिeven

जीवतिlives, survives

Speaker

कृप उवाच

Characters & Entities

Kṛpa (speaker)

Kṛpa’s father (unnamed here)

‘

‘those sinners’ (unspecified perpetrators)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes