Sanskrit Subhashitas: To day's Subhashit.

Friday 8 February 2013

To day's Subhashit.

सानन्दं सदनं सुताश्च सुधियः कान्ता न दुर्भाषिणी
सन्मित्रं सधनं स्वयोषिति रतिश्चाSSज्ञापराः सेवकाः |
आतिथ्यं शिवपूजनं प्रतिदिनं मिष्टान्नपानं गृहे
साधोः संगमुपासते हि सततं धन्यो गृहस्थाश्रमः ||

Saanandam sadanam sutaasch sudhiyah kaantaa na durbhaashini.
Sanmitram sadhanam swayoshiti ratishchaagyaaparaah.
Aatithyam shivapoojanam pratidinam mshtaannpaanam grahe'
Saadhoh sangmupaasate hi satatam dhanyo grahasthaashramah.

Saanand = comfortable, joyful. Sadan = residence. Sutaascha = children.
Sudhiyah = wise and learned. Kaantaa = wife. Na = not Durbhaashini = rude and ill speaking,
Sanmitram = good and reliable friends. Sadhanam = rich. Swayoshiti = one's wife.
Rati = sexual pleasure. Swayoshiti Ratih = being faithful to wife in sexual matters.
Aagyaaparaa = obedient. Sevakaah = servants. Aatithyam = hospitable to the guests.
Shiva poojanam = worshiping Lord Shiva. Pratidinam = every day. Mishtannpaanam = enjoying tasty food. Grahe = in the household. Saadhoh = noble persons. Sangamupaasate = sang + upaaste. Sang = company. Upaste = keeping the company of, sit near. Hi = surely.
Satatam = always, continuous. Dhanyo = blessed. Grahasthaashramah = family life.

i.e. A person's family life is peaceful and successful if he has a comfortable house to live in, his children are wise and learned, his wife is not rude and ill speaking, he has good and reliable friends, he is faithful to his wife in sexual matters, has obedient servants, is hospitable to guests, and every day worships Lord Shiva and enjoys tasty food, and always keeps the company of noble persons.
Surely blessed be such a householder.

( In Hindu Religion the life span of a person is divided into four orders namely Brahmacharyaashram, Grahasthaashram, Vanaprastha and Sanyaas, each order being of 25 years. The first order is assigned for education, the second one for getting married and raising a family, the third one for selfless service to the society and the last one for renouncing the worldly life and doing meditation. In this Subhashit all the pre-requisites for a successful and comfortable family life have been beautifully outlined by the author.).

2 comments:

Unknown30 November 2016 at 12:21
Hi Mohan,

Can you plz suggest the title of book/kavya/stotra/literature having above subhashitam

Thanks
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Mohan Chandra Joshi1 December 2016 at 09:55
As mentioned by me in my preface of the blogs, most of the Subhashitas posted by me are from a book named 'Subhashita Ratnakar published in the year 1888. That book may not be available now,]. The name of the publisher was Gopal Narayan Company bookselllers. You can findmany collections of Subhashitas from renowned Booksellers. From 'google search' you can get a collectioo of 10000 subhashitas in Wikibooks - 'महासुभषितसंग्रह' from where I am now a days selecting subhashitas and h=then translating them in Hindi and english for the benefit of people not knowing Sanskrit. There is another webside :महासुभषित रत्नभान्दागर; from where also you can get subhashitas. Please subscribe to my Blog on facebook titled 'Sanskrit Subhashits: and you will get daily a nrew Subhashita. Thanks for showing interest in Sanskrit,Yours sincerely, M.C.Joshi
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Preface

If there is a language on the earth, dead or living, which may preeminently deserve, by its compressibility of thought, richness of expression, and euphony of words, to be entitled the Language of Poets , it is undoubtedly Sanskrit. The Sanskrit writers cultivated poetry to such an extent , that every work, whether on the philosophy of the soul , or on the theory of Music and Dance, on a battle deciding the fate of the Country for a thousand years to come and shedding the blood of millions of human beings, or on the prosaic sacrifice of an animal offered to appease the hungry demons or the reluctant gods, came to be written in verse. Logic and grammar no less than the art and science of medicine, were thought worthy of being written in verse. Shortness and capability of being easily committed to memory were the chief objects in preferring verse to prose as regards the subjects for which poetry as such had no sympathy. But real poetry was by no means not neglected and among other kinds , epigrammatic poetry received special attention. The Panchatantra is full of short epigrammes on all possible topics relating to humanity viewed in all possible aspects. Thousands of couplets and stanzas embodying in the most laconic style - the choicest thoughts of serious as well as humorous minds , are floating on the surface of what is called learned conversation among our country-men , and a man is not considered learned, and perhaps rightly, unless he is able to repeat some celebrated saying of a poet or a dramatist illustrating either side of a question that may form the subject of conversation in which he is taking part. And though very few of these popular sayings can be verified as the productions of known authors,they are nevertheless greedily learnt by heart by the generality of Shastries (scholars of Sanskrit Language), and may be heard repeated by them in the course of their conversation. As they are very generally used among the well informed and well read of the passing generation of Shastris, they may freely be described as containing a faithful reflection of the modes of thoughts and of the sentiments of the Indian mind busy in a civilization that is now in the state of transition. Not infrequently , these epigrammatic pieces serve as authorities with the ignorant classes, to whom every thing written in the sacred tongue has the authority of Shastras.

It is trusted that what is said above will be sufficient excuse for placing before the public the following collection of 'SUBHASHITAS' . The collection is arranged under various heads and some times sayings both praising and censuring a custom or a state of things are separately given. It is one of the characteristics of subhashita poetry that, coming as it does from various hands, it is both one sided and exhaustive - one sided when viewed only in parts, and exhaustive when viewed as a whole. The reader will doubtless remember the shatakas of Bhaartrihari, who writing in praise of pleasures of the company of young women will raise them to highest heaven; but speaking of indifference to the pleasures of the world will almost in the same breath send his angels to the lowest depth of bottomless perdition. The same may be said of the epigrammatic verses of the Panchatantra, the interlocutors in which are never at loss to support their conflicting views by authoritative verses either quoted from old writers or composed for the occasion by the author. Both sides of every subject touched by the subhashitas are well, some-times perhaps too well, illustrate and the truth always lies between the two extremes.

(The above preface is from a book "SUBHASHITA RATNAKARA" -a collection of witty and epigrammatic sayings in Sanskrit -complied and edited by KRISHNA SHASTRI BHATAVADEKAR - published in the year 1888. The book belonged to my Grandfather , who was a Sanskrit scholar. I inherited the book from my father and all the Subhashitas to be posted by me are from this book, which is in Sanskrit. The translation of the Subhashitas has been done by me to the best of my ability. As I do not possess deep knowledge of Sanskrit, I may be excused of any discrepancies in the translation, if any. I hope that my humble effort will be appreciated by discerning readers going through my blog.Your suggestions in the matter are most welcome. Many thanks for your patronage.)

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