Words Well Worth 45: Easy To Get, Easy To Let Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Words Well Worth 45: Easy To Get, Easy To Let

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Things easy to beget
Earn no man's fair respect.
Leaving aside one's own,
Man's known alien wife prone.
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Transliteration of the subhāśhita along with the meanings of Sanskrit words is given as under:

su-labham vastu sarvasya na yāti ādaraņīyatām |
sva-dāra parihāreņa para-dāra-arthinah janāh ||

su-labham:easy to get
vastu: a thing
sarvasya: to all
na yāti: never renders, goes/becomes
ādaraņīyatām: to respect, becoming welcome
sva-dāra: one's own wife
parihāreņa:by discarding, leaving aside
para-dāra-arthinah: alien, other's wife-minded, covetous
janāh: (are)people

Topic: wife, covet, greed

Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: greed,wife
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Mahtab Bangalee 22 January 2020

Leaving aside one's own, Man's known alien wife prone./// wow greatly written; like this one

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Aniruddha Pathak 23 January 2020

You see, man is a strange animal. To him grapes are often sour if not easily get-able. Whilst at other times this one is also true.

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Kostas Lagos 22 January 2020

Wisdom springs from your work!

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Aniruddha Pathak 23 January 2020

Thanks, but thanks are due to Mahabharata and its creator sage Vyasa. On my part I thank you for the visit and this comment.

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