Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Today's Subhashita.

दुर्वृत्तसंगतिरनर्थपरम्पराया
हेतुः सतां भवति किं वचनीयमेतत्  |
लङ्केश्वरो हरति दाशरथेः कलत्रं
प्राप्नोति बन्धमथ दक्षिणसिन्धुराजः ||

अर्थ -     दुष्ट और  नीच व्यक्तियों की संगति करने के कारण  सज्जन व्यक्तियों  को  भी क्या क्या आरोप नहीं सहने पडते हैं ?  लङ्केश्वर रावण ने राजा दशरथ के पुत्र श्री राम की पत्नी सीता का अपहरण किया
परन्तु कष्ट और बन्धन (सेतु निर्माण) दक्षिण दिशा में स्थित समुद्र को करना पडा |

( भगवान्  श्री  राम को लंका  पर आक्रमण करने के लिये समुद्र को बांधना ( सेतु का निर्माण  करना) पडा था | समुद्र का यही दोष था कि वह लंका  की  सुरक्षा में  रावण की सहायता कर रहा था | इसी प्रसंग को कवि ने एक उपमा के रूप में प्रयुक्त किया है | .

Durvruttasangatiranarthaparamparaayaa.
Hetuh sataam bhavati kim vachaneeyametat.
Lankeshvaro harati Daasharatheh kalatram.
Praapnoti bandhanmatha dakshniasindhuraajh.

Durvrutta + anarth+paramparaayaa.    Durvrutta = mean and wicked person.   Sangati = associating with.    Anarth = disaster.    Paramparaayaa = tradition, consequence.   Hetu = reason.
Sataam = noble and righteous persons.    Bhavati = happens.    Kim = what.   Vachjaneeyametat =
Vachaneeya + etat.    Vachaneeya = reproach, blame .     Etat = this.      Lankeshvaro =  Ravana, the King of Lankas.    Harati = abducts.    takes away.     Daasharatheh = Lord Ram, the son of Dashratha.       Kalatra =  wife.      Prapnoti = gets.    Bandhanamath = bandhan + math.
Bandha = bondage.    Math = distress.      Dakshinasindhuraajh = Dakshin + sindhurajah.
Dakshin = southern      Sindhuraajh = ocean.

i.e.      Oh !  what a blame and distress  noble and righteous persons have to face as a consequence of their association with mean and wicked persons ?    Ravana, the  Emperor of Lanka, abducted
the wife (Sita) of Lord Ram, the son of King Dasrath, but the Southern Ocean had to face the wrath of Lord  Ram by being  threatened to be dried up and was  ultimately bonded  (by construction of a bridge over it ) only because of the ocean's association with Ravana.

( The author of the Subhashita has used as a simile an  episode from Ramayana regarding construction of a bridge over the southern ocean connecting the mainland to the island of Lanka for attacking it. The ocean served as a natural barrier and protected Lanka, the Kingdom of Ravana the demon King from being attacked by lord Ram. At one stage Lord Ram threatened to drain out the ocean only because of  its association with Ravana, who had abducted the wife of Lord Ram.)


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