Shloka 10

ग्रहसंख्यावर्णनम् — ध्रुवस्य तपोबलात् ध्रुवस्थानप्राप्तिः

Devanagari script

संतप्तहृदयो भूत्वा मम शोकं करिष्यसि स्वस्थस्थानं ध्रुवं पुत्र स्वशक्त्या त्वं समाप्नुयाः

Transliteration

saṃtaptahṛdayo bhūtvā mama śokaṃ kariṣyasi svasthasthānaṃ dhruvaṃ putra svaśaktyā tvaṃ samāpnuyāḥ

Translation

苦悩に心を焼かれるなら、あなたは私の悲しみの因となろう。だが、子よ、あなた自身の内なる力によって、必ずや揺るぎない正当の位—安住の処—に到達する。

Word by Word

• संतप्त-हृदयः: one whose heart is burning (with grief)

• भूत्वा: having become

• मम: my

• शोकम्: sorrow

• करिष्यसि: you will cause/do

• स्वस्थ-स्थानम्: one’s stable/rightful place (steady station)

• ध्रुवम्: fixed, certain

• पुत्र: O son

• स्व-शक्त्या: by one’s own power/strength

• त्वम्: you

• समाप्नुयाः: you shall attain/fully reach

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating an internal admonition from an elder to a son within the Purva-bhaga narrative)