Shloka 16

Go-apahāra (Cattle Theft), Go-dāna (Cow-Gift), and Suvarṇa-dakṣiṇā (Gold Fee): Karmic Consequence and Purificatory Merit

Devanagari script

कृतं च भरते सा गौर्मम पुत्रमपस्तनम्‌ | न सा शक्‍्या मया दातुमित्युक्त्वा स जगाम ह,“अपने दूधसे यह गौ मेरे मातृहीन शिशुका प्रतिदिन पालन करती है; अतः मैं इसे कदापि नहीं दे सकता।” यह कहकर वह उस गायको लेकर चला गया

Transliteration

kṛtaṃ ca bharate sā gaur mama putram apastanam | na sā śakyā mayā dātuṃ ity uktvā sa jagāma ha |

Translation

कृतं च भरते सा गौर्मम पुत्रमपस्तनम् । न सा शक्या मया दातुमित्युक्त्वा स जगाम ह ॥

Word by Word

कृतम्done; (it is) done

चand

भरतेO Bharata

साshe; that (cow)

गौःcow

ममmy

पुत्रम्son

अपस्तनम्without a mother’s breast; motherless (un-nursed)

नnot

साshe; that (cow)

शक्याpossible; able to be (given)

मयाby me

दातुम्to give

इतिthus; saying

उक्त्वाhaving said

सःhe

जगामwent

हindeed; (emphatic particle)

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Bharata

cow (gauḥ)

motherless child/son (putra, apastana)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Sandhi Notes