Bhartṛhari K235

Ryder

            
            ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE
            
            Child for an hour, and lovesick youth an hour,
            
              Beggar an hour, then fanned by riches' breath,
            
            The wrinkled actor, Man, bereft of power,
            
              Creeps tottering behind the curtain, Death.

Brough

            
            For one short act, a child; next act, a boy 
            
            In love; then poor; a short act to enjoy 
            
            Status and wealth: till in the last act, Man, 
            
            Painted with wrinkles, body bent with age, 
            
            Ending the comedy which birth began, 
            
            Withdraws behind the curtain of life’s stage.

Tawney

            
            Man is an actor who plays various parts:—
            
            First comes a boy, then out a lover starts,
            
            His garb is changed for, lo! the beggar's rags!
            
            Then he's a merchant with full money-bags;
            
            Anon an aged sire, wrinkled and lean;
            
            At last death drops his curtain on the scene.

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            LXX 
            
            A while the helpless wailing child,
            
            A while the youth by lusts denied,
            
            A while for gold to cringe and swink,
            
            A while to hear the yellow counters clink:
            
            A while of lonely eld's disgrace,
            
            The palsied limb and wizened face, — 
            
            Then like the player he too creeps
            
            Behind the heavy curtain — he too sleeps.

Mādhavānanda

            
              क्षणं बालो भूत्वा क्षणमपि युवा कामरसिक:
            
                क्षणं वित्तैर्हीन: क्षणमपि च संपूर्णविभव: ।
            
              जराजीर्णैरङ्गैर्नट इव वलीमण्डिततनु-
            
                र्नर: संसारान्ते विशति यमधानीयवनिकाम् ।।५०।।
            
            50. Now a child for a while and then a youth of erotic ways, a destitute now for a while and then very wealthy, just like an actor, man makes at the end of his role—when diseased in all limbs by age and wrinkled all over the body—his exit behind the scene that veils the abode of Yama (death).

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क्षणं बालो भूला क्षणमपि युवा कामरसिकः

क्षणं वित्तैनः क्षणमपि च संपूर्णविभवः ।

जराजीर्णैरङ्गैर्नट इव वलीमंडिततनु

र्नरः संसारान्ते विशति यमधानीजवनिकाम् ॥ ११२ ॥

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CXII . ( a ) ० म ; ०८. G. ( c ) मण्डि ० , पण्डि ° G. ( 4 ) ०० ते ; ड .

M.P. R. Bo.n. ० ; दि ० . P. नीज ° ; ° नीय ° Bo . ( orig . Bon . ) N.

● नी ज : T. K. G.

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St. CXII . - The adjectives in the first three lines go both

with नरः and नट : संसारान्ते . e . at the end of this life . जवनिका -

curtain . A with must be taken as equivalent to ' goes

behind .'- S'ikharini .

Gopinath1914

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Gopinath1896

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Kosambi

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क्षणं बालो भूत्वा क्षणमपि युवा कामरसिक :

क्षणं वित्तैनः क्षणमपि च संपूर्णविभवः ।

जराजीटइव वलीमण्डिततनुर

नरः संसारा विशति यमधानीजवनिकाम् ॥ २३५ ॥

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235 { V } Om in A Fs Jodhpurl NS1.2 and BU . Extra in most E.

a ) X भूते ( for भूत्वा ) . E3 . 4 Hit . 2 G1.4 क्षणमपि च ; F1.3 क्षणमथ ( for क्षणमपि ) .

I सदा ( for युवा ) . Ys -निरतः ( for रसिकः ) . 0 ) J1 W1.2 बली • W2 -पण्डित- : M4

मुण्डित- ( for -मण्डित- ) . – d 4 a ) ) F1 F1 मरः मरः ( ( fcr fcr नरः नरः ) ) . . F2 F2 संसारोके संसारोके ; ; F½ ( m.v. as in text )

-संसारेके ; Jzc . 2 3 8 ( except Y3 G2 . 3 ) संसारान्ते . P2 विशसि ; H2 दिशति ; G2 . 8 निविशति .

D Y1 यमधानिं ; J1 W2 . + X 1 Y3 T2 G1 - 3.5M 1.5 यमधानीं ( G1 यानीं ) . B1 जवनिका ;

F2–4 F1 Ic ( also as in text ) J S ( except X Y1 . 3 ) - यवनिकां ( 13 ' निका ) ; F3

-यमिनिकां ; F + - यमनिकां . ८

BIS . 2004 ( 779 ) Bhartr . ed . Bobl . 3. 51. Haeb and lith ed . IlI . 48. lith .

ed . I. 39 , II . 99. Galan 47. Subhāsh . 317 ; Śp . 4094 ( Bh . ) ; SRE . p . 368. 38 ;

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SBH . 3319 ( Bh . ) ; SRH . 196.22 ; SRK • p . 95. 10 ( Bh . ) .