Bhartṛhari K272

Ryder

            
            THE DECLINE OF TRUE LEARNING
            
            Once, learning slew the living woe
            
            Of wise men. That was long ago.
            
            She then disdained such service rare,
            
            Became a practical affair.
            
            But nowadays she sees that kings
            
            Despise all intellectual things,
            
            And sinking lower day by day,
            
            She seems to vanish quite away.

Tawney

            
            Of old time learning courted saintly bliss. 
            
              Then stooped to be the slave of base desire, 
            
              But now that kings 'gainst intellect conspire 
            
            Each day she plunges deeper in th' abyss.

Telang

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पुरा विद्वत्तासीदुपशमवतां शहत

गता कालेनासौं विषयसुखसिद्धैय विषयिणाम् ।

इदानीं तु प्रेक्ष्य क्षितितलभुजः शास्त्रविमुखा

नहो कष्टं सापि प्रतिदिनमधोधः प्रविशति ॥ २८ ॥

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XXVIII ( a ) ० दुपशमभयम् ; शाम् . ( वृशाम ? . ) B. " दमलि -

नभियाम . K. Bo . ( 6 ) °°ौ . K. Bo.८ M. ( ० ) तु ; सम् . K. Bo .

सा . M. तळ ; लव . Bo .

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St. XXVIII . - destruction . It occurs again in St. 30 , and

in other places also . The idea is that in the first instance

learning was a means to the destruction of worldly troubles ,

afterwards to the achievement of worldly pleasures , and now

lastly receiving no appreciation at all , it is departing from the

earth . For the last , St. 2 may be compared . i . e . even in

this lowest condition . - S'ikharini .

Gopinath1914

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Gopinath1896

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Kosambi

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पुरा विद्वत्तासीदुपशमवतां क्लेशहतये

गता कालेनासौ विषयसुखसियै विषयिणाम् ।

इदानीं तु प्रेक्ष्य क्षितितलभुजः शास्त्रविमुखान्

अहो कष्टं सापि प्रतिदिनमधोऽधः प्रविशति ॥ २७२ ॥

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272 { V } Found in AC D E F14 [ Also Jodhpur 3 , BORI329 , and

Punjab 2101 V30 ; BORI 326 V35 ( 34 ) ; Punjab 697 V27 ; NS1 V35 ; NS2V25

( 21 ) ; NS3 V107 ( extra ) ] . – 4 a ) ( C अमलिनधियां ; ) अपशमवतां ; 11 उपशमयतां . F4

केशहृदये . - ८ ) CF + ( orig . ) विषयिनां ; F + ( by corr . ) विषयिना . C ) C सं- ; E6 सा

( for तु ) . A -विषमाम् ( for विमुखान् ) . – “ d ) D कष्टं ( for सापि ) .

BIS . 4143 ( 1802 ) Bhartr ed . Bohl . 3. 100. Haeb . 98. lith ed . II . 27 .

Subhash 311 .