Shloka 19

Devanagari script

सर्वे क्षयान्ता निचया: पतनान्ता: समुच्छया: । संयोगाश्न वियोगान्ता मरणान्तं च जीवितम्‌,समस्त संग्रहका अन्त है विनाश, उत्थानका अन्त है पतन, संयोगका अन्त है वियोग और जीवनका अन्त है मृत्यु

Transliteration

sarve kṣayāntā nicayāḥ patanāntāḥ samucchayāḥ | saṃyogāś ca viyogāntā maraṇāntaṃ ca jīvitam ||

Translation

وایو نے کہا—ہر جمع پونجی کا انجام زوال ہے؛ ہر بلندی اور ہر ڈھیر کا انجام گِرنا ہے۔ ہر ملاپ کا انجام جدائی ہے، اور زندگی کا انجام موت۔

Word by Word

सर्वेall

क्षय-अन्ताःhaving destruction as the end

निचयाःaccumulations/collections

पतन-अन्ताःhaving falling as the end

समुच्छयाःheaps/risings/accumulations

संयोगाःunions/associations

वियोग-अन्ताःending in separation

मरण-अन्तम्ending in death

चand

जीवितम्life

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyu (Vāyudeva)

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 impermanence: wealth and gains diminish, high positions collapse, relationships part, and life ends in death. Therefore one should practice non-attachment, humility, and dharmic action without intoxication by success or despair in loss.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva delivers a sober instruction, using universal truths about decline, separation, and mortality to counsel the listener toward steadiness and right conduct, rather than clinging to transient worldly conditions.