Shloka 14

आपद्-राजनीतिः (Āpad-rājanīti) — Policy Options in Multi-Front Crisis

Devanagari script

सत्कृत्य नोपकुरुते परं शक्‍्त्या यथा्हत: । या सक्ता सर्वभूतेषु सा55शा कृशतरी मया

Transliteration

satkṛtya nopakurute paraṁ śaktyā yathāhataḥ | yā śaktā sarvabhūteṣu sāśā kṛśatarī mayā ||

Translation

克里沙说道：“若有人礼遇求乞者，先使其期望高起，却仍不按自身能力尽其所当施之助，则一切众生心中所生之‘希望’，便比我更为消瘦——比我自身更为枯槁。”

Word by Word

• सत्कृत्य: having honored / after honoring
• सत्कृत्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Verb
• Root: सत्कृ (धातु) / सत्+कृ
• Form: क्त्वा-प्रत्ययान्त अव्यय (gerund)

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• उपकुरुते: does a favor / helps
• Type: Verb
• Root: उपकृ (धातु)
• Form: लट्, आत्मनेपद, 3, singular

• परम्: another person (the other)
• परम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: masculine, accusative, singular

• शक्त्या: by (one's) ability
• शक्त्या: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शक्ति (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: feminine, instrumental, singular

• यथा: as / according to
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• अर्हतः: than what is proper / deserved
• अर्हतः: Apadana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अर्हत् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: masculine, ablative, singular

• या: which
• या: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: feminine, nominative, singular

• आशा: hope
• आशा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: आशा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: feminine, nominative, singular

• सक्ता: attached / fixed (upon)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सञ्ज्/सक्त (धातु-जन्य) / सक्त (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (past passive participle used adjectivally), feminine, nominative, singular

• सर्वभूतेषु: in all beings
• सर्वभूतेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सर्वभूत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: neuter, locative, plural

• सा: that (she/it)
• सा: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: feminine, nominative, singular

• अशा: hopelessness / lack of hope
• अशा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अशा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: feminine, nominative, singular

• कृशतरी: more meagre / thinner
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कृशतर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: feminine, nominative, singular

• मया: by me / than me (as standard of comparison)
• मया: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: instrumental, singular

Speaker

कृश उवाच

Characters & Entities

• कृश (Kṛśa)
• याचक (supplicant/beggar) (implied)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Do not create expectations through honor and promises if you will not help according to your capacity; raising hope and then failing to act is ethically worse than refusing plainly, because it diminishes trust and harms the vulnerable.

What is happening in the narrative?

Kṛśa comments on a moral failing: a person respectfully receives a petitioner and kindles hope, but then withholds appropriate assistance. Kṛśa uses a striking comparison—hope itself becomes ‘more emaciated than me’—to show how such conduct starves and weakens the spirit of beings.