Bhartṛhari K177

Brough

            
            Rags are enough for me, silk pleases you: 
            
            A difference undifferentiated. 
            
            A man is poor till his desires are sated. 
            
            Who is the rich, who poor, between us two?

Tawney

            
            Bark garments satisfy my needs,
            
            But you are pleased with silken weeds,
            
              Who counts you better off than me?
            
            But woe to him whose wants are great!
            
            Contentment equals men's estate,
            
              And makes the rich and poor agree.

Mādhavānanda

            
              वयमिह परितुष्टा वल्कलैस्त्वं दुकूलै:
            
                सम इव परितोषो निविर्शेषो विशेष: ।
            
              स तु भवतु दरिद्रो यस्य तृष्णा विशाला
            
                मनसि च परितुष्टे कोऽर्थवान्को दरिद्र: ।।५३।।
            
            53. Here we are satisfied with the bark of trees and thou with rich garments; (and yet) our contentment is alike, (so) the distinction makes no difference. Poor indeed is he whose desires are boundless. If the mind be contended, who is rich and who poor?
            
            [One who is satisfied with what little he possesses is as good as the rich.]

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बयमिह परितुष्टा वल्कलैस्त्वं च लक्ष्म्या

सम इह परितोषो निर्विशेषो विशेषः ।

स तु भवतु दरिद्रो यस्य तृष्णा विशाला

मनसि च परितुष्टे कोर्थवान्को दरिद्रः ॥ ५० ॥

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I. ( a ) च लभ्या ; दुकूलै : T. K. Bo . ( orig . Bon . ) G. N. ( b ) इ ; १० .

A. ° ° C . ° बावि Bon . ( orig . Bo . ) ( 6 ) ° वनु ; ° वसि . C.

A. P. R. G. T. ° द्रो ; द्वी . A. T , G. ( @ ) ° द्रः ; ° द्री . A. T

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St. L. - इह = अस्मिन् संसारे Ramarshi says विश्वस्मिन् which I do

not understand . : is a better reading than as

marking better the contrast with Tð - Añà¶ ft : is some

what puzzling . Ramarshi says अत्र विशेष : अन्तरं भेद इत्यर्थ : निर्विशेष :

Biday : : * T * : . But this is not satisfactory .

Perhaps : should be taken as meaning " greatness "

see Naishadha III . , 41 and commentary . Máliní .

Gopinath1914

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Gopinath1896

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Kosambi

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वयमिह परितुष्टा वल्कलैस् त्वं च लक्ष्म्या

सम इह परितोषो निर्विशेषो विशेषः ।

स तु भवतु दरिद्रो यस्य तृष्णा विशाला

मनसि च परितुष्टे कोऽर्थवान् को दरिद्रः ॥ १७७ ॥

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177 ) a Y7.8 अपि ( for इह ) . Y2 परितृप्ता . F3 W X Y1 – 3.7.8 T G1.45 M

दुकूलै : ( for च लक्ष्म्या ) . – 4 ) B2 समम् . C D F1 J1 2 Y1B 4-0 1 6T T G5 इव ; Y8 इति ; M +

-हित ( for इह ) . M3 परितोषे . E निर्विशेषा ( Eot.3 षो ) वशेष :; X 1 निर्विशोको विशेषः ;

G + निर्विकल्पो विशेषः - " ) F2 स च ; T3 सति . CH W2.3.1c Y1 . 8 – – 8 T3 G1-3 M2 भवति .

W दरिद्वी ~ ) Eo . 4. 4 ( and Ec ) I तु ( for च ) . F1 दरिद्री

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