Shloka 40

और्वोपाख्यानम्

Aurva Episode: Restoration of Sight and Restraint of World-Destructive Anger

Devanagari script

अस्त्राग्निना विचित्रो<यं दग्धो मे रथ उत्तम: । सो हं चित्ररथो भूत्वा नाम्ना दग्धरथो5भवम्‌,इनके दिव्यास्त्रकी अग्निसे मेरा यह विचित्र एवं उत्तम रथ दग्ध हो गया है। पहले मैं विचित्र रथके कारण “चित्ररथ” कहलाता था; परंतु अब मेरा नाम “दग्धरथ' हो गया

Transliteration

astrāgninā vicitro 'yaṃ dagdho me ratha uttamaḥ | so 'haṃ citraratho bhūtvā nāmnā dagdharatho 'bhavam ||

Translation

«ဒေဝအာஸ္တရ၏ မီးကြောင့် ငါ၏ အလှပဆုံး၊ အံ့ဖွယ်ရထားသည် လောင်ကျွမ်းသွားပြီ။ ထိုထူးခြားသောရထားကြောင့် ငါကို ‘စိတ္တရထ’ ဟု ခေါ်ခဲ့ကြသော်လည်း ယခုတော့ ငါ၏နာမည်သည် ‘ဒဂ္ဓရထ’—‘ရထားလောင်သူ’ ဟူ၍ ဖြစ်လာပြီ»။

Word by Word

अस्त्राग्निनाby the fire of (a) weapon

विचित्रःwonderful/variegated

अयम्this

दग्धःburnt

मेof me / my

रथःchariot

उत्तमःexcellent

सःthat (I)/so

अहम्I

चित्ररथःChitraratha (one having a splendid chariot)

भूत्वाhaving become

नाम्नाby name / in name

दग्धरथःDagdharatha (one whose chariot is burnt)

अभवम्I became

Speaker

गन्धर्व उवाच

Characters & Entities

Citraratha (Gandharva)

Chariot (ratha)

Astra (divine weapon)

Agni (weapon-fire)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes