Shloka 16

अश्वमेध-उपदेशः तथा मरुत्त-यज्ञ-धन-प्रसङ्गः

Counsel on Aśvamedha and the Marutta-treasure episode

Devanagari script

दुर्योधनेन पृथिवी क्षयिता वित्तकारणात्‌ । कोशश्चापि विशीर्णोडसौ धार्तराष्ट्रस्य दुर्मते:

Transliteration

duryodhanena pṛthivī kṣayitā vittakāraṇāt | kośaś cāpi viśīrṇo 'sau dhārtarāṣṭrasya durmateḥ ||

Translation

ယုဓိဋ္ဌိရက ပြောသည်— «ငွေကြေးအလိုကြောင့် ဒုရျောဓနက ကမ္ဘာမြေကို ဖျက်ဆီးစေခဲ့သည်။ သို့သော် ငွေမရသေးဘဲ၊ မကောင်းသောစိတ်ရှိသည့် ဓೃತရာഷ്ടရ၏ သား၏ خزာနာတောင် ပျက်စီးကွဲပြား၍ အလွတ်ဖြစ်သွားခဲ့သည်။ ထို့ကြောင့် အခြားသူတို့ကို ဖျက်ဆီးသော လောဘသည် နောက်ဆုံးတွင် လောဘကြီးသူကိုယ်တိုင်ကိုပင် ဖျက်ဆီးတတ်၏»

Word by Word

• दुर्योधनेन: by Duryodhana
• दुर्योधनेन: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दुर्योधन
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• पृथिवी: the earth
• पृथिवी: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृथिवी
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• क्षयिता: destroyer / one who caused destruction
• क्षयिता: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: क्षयितृ (from √क्षि/क्षय्)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• वित्तकारणात्: because of wealth (as the cause)
• वित्तकारणात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वित्त-कारण
• Form: Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• कोशः: treasury
• कोशः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: कोश
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

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

• अपि: also/even
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• विशीर्णः: shattered, wasted, emptied
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विशीर्ण (from √शॄ/शृ)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• असौ: that (he/this man)
• असौ: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: असद्/असौ (pronoun)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• धार्तराष्ट्रस्य: of Dhritarashtra's son (Duryodhana)
• Type: Noun
• Root: धार्तराष्ट्र
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• दुर्मतेः: of the evil-minded/foolish one
• Type: Noun
• Root: दुर्मति
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

Speaker

युधिषछ्िर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Duryodhana
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Pṛthivī (the earth/kingdom)
• Kośa (treasury)