Bhartṛhari K056

Ryder

            
            THE DIVINE DECREE
            
            Thy wise creator wrote upon thy brow,
            
              When thou wast born, what wealth should once be thine;
            
            The sum was great perhaps, or small; yet now
            
              Thy fate is fixed, and sure the law divine.
            
            For if thou dwell within the desert's bound,
            
              Thou shalt have nothing less than his decree;
            
            Nor shall a single penny more be found,
            
              Although the golden mount thy dwelling be.
            
            Ah, then be brave and play the manly part,
            
            Nor be so fond to humble thy proud heart
            
            And fawn before the rich with cringing art.
            
            For see! A jar that in the ocean fell
            
            Holds no more water in its little shell
            
            Than when you lowered it in the meanest well.

Tawney

            
            Fate writes upon thy brow at birth the limits of thy store,
            
            In barren wilds, on Meru's peak, 'tis neither less nor more;
            
            Then cringe thou not to wealthy men, but let thy looks be free,
            
            A pitcher from a pool is filled, as well as from the sea.

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            XLVI 
            
            Read! — the Creator's finger on thy brow
            
            Hath wrote the figure of thy wealth; nor thou
            
            In lonely desert hid shalt make it less,
            
            Nor greater on the Golden Mount possess.
            
            What worry then? why in the crowded mart 
            
            With vulgar traffic wear away thy heart?
            
            The pitcher at the well is filled, nor more 
            
            Draws at the ocean-shore.

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यद्धात्रा निजभालपट्टलिखितं स्तोकं महद्वा धनं

तत्प्राप्नोति मरुस्थलेपि नितरां मेरी ततो नाधिकम् |

तीरो भव वित्तवत्सु कृपणां वृत्तिं वृथा मा कृथाः

कूपे पश्य पयोनिधावपि घटो गृह्णाति तुल्यं जलम् ॥ ४ ९ ॥

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XLIX . ( a ) वनम् ; फलम् Be . K. ( b ) ° ति ; ° षि . M. P. ° तराम ; ॰यतम् .

Be .. K. ततो ना ; च नाती ०. S. X. K. D. Be . M. P. R.N. Bo . ( orig .

Bo.n. ) .

( e ) व ० ; य ° T. लम् . Bo . ● द्वी ; ००. Bon . बी ० . Bo . ( a ) ० टो .

गृण्हाति ; ° टा गृण्हान्त K. Be.n.

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St. XLIX . - भाळपट्ट Comp . Gangalahart Stanza 42. The ex

pression is extromely common in the vernaculars also . वित्तवत्सु

वृत्तिम् , Coup . Sakuntala कुरु प्रियसखोवृत्ति सपत्नीजने . कृषण = miserable ,

humiliated . Comp . Meghadúta Stauza 4. The last line means

A jar , you see , takes in an equal quantity of water from a

well and from the ocean . ” — S'ârdúlavikrûlita .

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यद् धात्रा निजभालपट्टलिखितं स्तोकं महदू वा धनं

तत् प्राप्नोति मरुस्थलेऽपि नितरां मेरौ च नातोऽधिकम् ।

तद् धीरो भव वित्तवत्सु कृपणां वृत्तिं वृथा मा कृथाः

कृपे पश्य पयोनिधावपि घटो गृह्णाति तुल्यं जलम् ॥ ५६ ॥

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56 Om . in BORI 329 . ● a ) Es निजलाभपट्ट ; 11-3 J3 3 Y7 I14 01 -4 M.

निजफालपट्ट ; J1 निजबालपट्ट 13 स्वल्पं ( for स्तोकं ) . Yo वा फलं ; Dis यहूनं ( for वा धनं ) .

– 4 ) B1 E016 H10 . 2 तत्मामोषि ; 12 सिध्यंत्येव ( for सरप्राप्नोति ) . F3 हिमगिरौ ; Ga M

[ s ] पि नियतं ( for ऽपि नितरां ) . A3 Ba Y1 न चातोधिकं 3 12 च तन्नाधिकं ; F4 वनांतेपि वा ;

Fs I W ततो नाधिकं ( for च नातोऽधिकम् ) . - . ° ) Wa - + त्वं ( for तद् ) . Fo बहु - ( for भव ) .

A I चि ( A2 वि ) त्तवृत्तिकृपणां ; Fs वित्तवत्सु कृपर्णी . Ao.1.3 चित्ते व्यथां ; A2 चित्ते वृथा

( for वृतिं वृथा ) . – d ) Wat पयः ( for जलम् ) .

BIS . 5267 ( 2386 ) Bhartr . ed . Bobl . 2. 41. Haeb . 70 lith ed . I and III . 48 ,

II . 49. Galan 52 ; SRB . p . 93.99 ; SRK . p . 71. 9 ( ST ) ; SHV . f . 63b , 790 ; SN .

806 ; SL . f . 37a ; SSV . 335 ; SKG . f . 18a .