Shloka 113

Devanagari script

धर्ममूलां श्रियं प्राप्य पाप्मा नष्ट इहाद्य मे । भूतपूर्व कीटने कहा--भगवन्‌! आपके ही प्रयत्नसे मैं अधिकाधिक सुखकी अवस्थाको प्राप्त होता गया हूँ। अब इस जन्ममें धर्ममूलक सम्पत्ति पाकर मेरा सारा पाप नष्ट हो गया

Transliteration

dharmamūlāṃ śriyaṃ prāpya pāpmā naṣṭa ihādya me |

Translation

Червь сказал: «О Бхагаван, обретя благополучие, основанное на дхарме, мой грех сегодня здесь уничтожен. Благодаря твоему собственному усилию я достигал всё более высоких состояний счастья; ныне же, в этом рождении, получив праведное богатство, я полностью избавился от прежних дурных заслуг».

Word by Word

• धर्ममूलाम्: having dharma as its root; dharma-founded
• धर्ममूलाम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: धर्ममूल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• श्रियम्: prosperity, fortune
• श्रियम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्री (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• प्राप्य: having obtained
• प्राप्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Verb
• Root: √आप् (प्राप्) + ल्यप्
• Form: ल्यप् (absolutive/gerund), Parasmaipada (usage-neutral for gerund)

• पाप्मा: sin, evil (as a personified/abstract agent)
• पाप्मा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाप्मन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• नष्टः: destroyed, perished
• नष्टः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: √नश् + क्त (नष्ट)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular, क्त (past passive participle)

• इह: here, in this world
• इह: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इह

• अद्य: today, now
• अद्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अद्य

• मे: of me, my
• मे: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Genitive, Singular

Speaker

कीट उवाच

Characters & Entities

• kīṭa (the worm)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Prosperity that is rooted in dharma is ethically transformative: when wealth and well-being arise from righteous conduct, they become instruments of inner purification, dissolving prior sin (pāpmā) rather than reinforcing it.

What is happening in the narrative?

A being identified as a worm (kīṭa) speaks in gratitude, declaring that through another’s effort it has progressively attained greater happiness, and that in this present life its former demerit has been eradicated upon gaining dharma-founded prosperity.