Today's Subhashita.

किं तया क्रियते धेन्वा या न दौग्ध्री न गर्भिणी |
कोSर्थ पुत्रेण जातेन यो न विद्वान्न धार्मिकः ||   -सुभाषित रत्नाकर

अर्थ -     उस गाय का क्या किया जाय  जो न तो दूध देती है और
न ही गर्भिणी हो ?  इसी प्रकार  एक  ऐसा पुत्र होने का  क्या अर्थ
(उपयोगिता) है  जो  न तो विद्वान् हो और न ही धार्मिक प्रवृत्ति का
हो |

Kim tayaa kriyate dhenvaa yaa na daugdhree na garbhinee
Korth putrena jaatena yo na vidvaann dhaarmikah.

Kim = what ?     Tayaa = with her.    Kriyate = do.    Dhenvaa =
cow.     Yaa = who.    Na = not.    Daugdhree = giving milk.
Garbhinee = being pregnant.     Kortha =ko +artha.    Ko= oh no.
Artha = utility, meaning.    Putrena = by a son.    Jaatena =born.
Yo = who.     Vidvaan = learned.      Dhaarmika = righteous,
virtuous.

i.e.         Of what use  is a cow who is neither giving milk nor is
pregnant ?   Likewise, it is meaningless to have a so who his
neither learned  nor righteous and virtuous.