Shloka 144

मानसतीर्थ-शौचप्रशंसा | Praise of the ‘Mental Tīrtha’ and the Marks of Purity

Devanagari script

दम्भद्रोहनिवृत्तेषु कृतबुद्धिषु भारत । अचलेष्वप्रकम्पेषु मा ते भूदत्र संशय:

Transliteration

dambha-droha-nivṛtteṣu kṛta-buddhiṣu bhārata | acaleṣv aprakampeṣu mā te bhūd atra saṁśayaḥ ||

Translation

भीष्म उवाच— दम्भद्रोहनिवृत्तेषु कृतबुद्धिषु भारत। अचलेष्वप्रकम्पेषु मा ते भूदत्र संशयः॥ भारत, दम्भद्रोहवर्जितेषु, कृतबुद्धिषु, अचलेष्वप्रकम्पेषु—एतेषु विषयेऽत्र ते संशयो न भवेत्।

Word by Word

• {'dambha': 'hypocrisy, ostentatious religiosity', 'droha': 'malice, treachery, hostile intent', 'nivṛtta': 'turned away from, ceased from', 'kṛta-buddhi': 'one whose mind is made up

• resolved, purified in intention', 'bhārata': 'O descendant of Bharata (address to Yudhiṣṭhira)', 'acala': 'immovable, steady', 'aprakampa': 'unshaken, not trembling

• firm', 'mā': 'do not', 'te': 'for you / in you', 'bhūt': 'let it be (optative of √bhū)', 'atra': 'here

• in this matter', 'saṁśaya': 'doubt, uncertainty', 'upavāsa': 'fasting

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Bhārata (Yudhiṣṭhira)