Shloka 15

Devanagari script

अवज्ञाय तु यत्‌ ते5हं भोजनाद्‌ व्यपरोपित: । तेन मे गौरवं नष्टं त्वत्तक्षास्माच्च वासव

Transliteration

avajñāya tu yat te 'haṁ bhojanād vyaparopitaḥ | tena me gauravaṁ naṣṭaṁ tvattakṣāsmāc ca vāsava ||

Translation

ກຣຸດາກ່າວວ່າ: «ເພາະເຈົ້າດູໝິ່ນຂ້າພະເຈົ້າ ແລະໄລ່ຂ້າພະເຈົ້າອອກຈາກອາຫານຂອງຕົນ ກຽດສັກສີຂອງຂ້າພະເຈົ້າຈຶ່ງພັງທະລາຍ. ແລະໂອ ວາສະວະ (ອິນທຣາ) ການທີ່ຕັກສະກະ (Takṣaka) ກັດຂ້າພະເຈົ້າ ກໍເປັນເພາະເຈົ້າເຊັ່ນກັນ».

Word by Word

• अवज्ञाय: having disregarded/insulted
• Type: Verb
• Root: अवज्ञा (धातु: अव-ज्ञा)
• Form: क्त्वान्त (absolutive/gerund), कर्तरि

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• यत्: that/whereas
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यद्
• Form: सम्बन्धे/हेतौ (yad = 'that/whereas/that which')

• ते: your
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, षष्ठी, एकवचन

• अहम्: I
• अहम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• भोजनात्: from the meal/food
• भोजनात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भोजन
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी, एकवचन

• व्यपरोपितः: was removed/kept away (excluded)
• Type: Verb
• Root: व्यप-रोपित (धातु: व्यप-रुह्/रोप् → रोपयति; कृदन्त: रोपित)
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन, कर्मणि

• तेन: by that/thereby
• तेन: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, तृतीया, एकवचन

• मे: my
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, षष्ठी, एकवचन

• गौरवम्: honour/respect
• गौरवम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: गौरव
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन

• नष्टम्: destroyed/lost
• Type: Verb
• Root: नष्ट (धातु: नश्)
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन

• त्वत्तक्शात्: from you, the carpenter (i.e., from you, O Takṣa)
• त्वत्तक्शात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: त्वद् + तक्षन्
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी, एकवचन

• अस्मात्: from this/from here
• अस्मात्: Apadana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: पुं/नपुंसक (प्रयोगानुसार), पञ्चमी, एकवचन

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• वासव: O Vāsava (Indra)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वासव
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन, एकवचन

Speaker

गरुड उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Garuḍa
• Takṣaka
• Vāsava (Indra)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how contempt and public slighting can destroy dignity and provoke lasting enmity; it also stresses moral accountability by attributing subsequent harm to the one whose disrespect set events in motion.

What is happening in the narrative?

Garuḍa addresses Indra, accusing him of having insulted and driven him away from his food, thereby causing Garuḍa’s loss of honor; Garuḍa further blames Indra’s agency for the biting by Takṣaka.