Shloka 16

कल्मषापहर-कीर्तनम् / Kīrtana for the Removal of Impurity

Devanagari script

अल्पभोगकुले जाता अल्पभोगरता नरा: । अनेन कर्मणा देवि भवन्त्यधनिनो नरा:,देवि! इस पापकर्मसे ही मनुष्य अल्प भोगवाले कुलमें जन्म लेता है, थोड़े-से ही भोग भोगते और सदा निर्धन रहते हैं

Transliteration

alpabhogakule jātā alpabhogarātā narāḥ | anena karmaṇā devi bhavanty adhanino narāḥ ||

Translation

مہیشور نے کہا— اے دیوی! اسی طرح کے پاپ کرم کے سبب انسان کم آسائش والے خاندان میں پیدا ہوتے ہیں؛ تھوڑی سی لذتوں ہی میں دل لگاتے ہیں؛ اور ہمیشہ نادار رہتے ہیں۔

Word by Word

अल्पभोगकुलेin a family of scant enjoyments

जाताःborn

अल्पभोगरताःdevoted to little enjoyment

नराःmen

अनेनby this

कर्मणाby (this) deed/action

देविO goddess

भवन्तिbecome/are

अधनिनःpoor, without wealth

नराःmen

Speaker

श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrī Maheśvara (Śiva)

Devī (the Goddess, addressed)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches moral causality: sinful conduct (pāpa-karma) ripens into constrained life-conditions—birth in a low-resource family, habituation to small pleasures, and persistent poverty—implying that ethical choices shape one’s future circumstances.

What is happening in the narrative?

Maheśvara is instructing Devī in a didactic dialogue, explaining the karmic results of certain wrongful actions and how they manifest socially and materially as limited enjoyment and lack of wealth.