Shloka 17

Devanagari script

यथा पितुर्ग॒हे विप्र प्रासादे शयनं मम । तथाविधे त्वं शयने मामुपैतुमिहाहसि,“ब्रह्मन! मैं अपने पिताके घर उनके महलमें जैसी शय्यापर सोया करती थी, वैसी ही शय्यापर आप मेरे साथ समागम करें

Transliteration

yathā pitur gṛhe vipra prāsāde śayanaṁ mama | tathāvidhe tvaṁ śayane mām upaitum ihāhasi ||

Translation

โอ้พราหมณ์ ดังที่ข้าพเจ้าเคยนอนบนแท่นบรรทมในปราสาทแห่งเรือนบิดา ฉันใด ท่านก็ควรเข้ามาหาข้าพเจ้าที่นี่บนที่บรรทมเช่นนั้นฉันนั้น

Word by Word

यथाas, just as

पितुःof (my) father

गृहेin the house

विप्रO brahmin

प्रासादेin the palace/mansion

शयनम्bed, couch

ममmy

तथाso, in that manner

अविधेin such a kind (of)

त्वम्you

शयनेon the bed

माम्me

उपैतुम्to approach, to come to

इहhere

अर्हसिyou are fit/you ought

Speaker

लोगश उवाच

Characters & Entities

Lomaśa

vipra (a brāhmaṇa addressee)

pitṛ-gṛha (father’s house)

prāsāda (palace)

śayana (bed/couch)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse foregrounds expectations of propriety and status in intimate relations: the speaker frames union as something that should occur under conditions deemed fitting—here, the luxury and dignity associated with her paternal home—thereby reflecting how social rank and notions of decorum shape personal conduct.

What is happening in the narrative?

A woman (as quoted under Lomaśa’s narration) addresses a brāhmaṇa and insists that he approach her on a bed comparable to the one she enjoyed in her father’s palace, expressing a demand for a particular standard of setting and treatment.