Bhartṛhari K315

Ryder

            
            UNINTELLIGIBLE VIRTUE
            
            Are palace-joys so incomplete?
            
              Is song a despicable pleasure?
            
            And is there anything so sweet
            
              As clasping her you love and treasure?
            
            Yet pious men account these things
            
            As vain as flickering candlelight
            
            'Neath dancing moths on troubled wings;
            
            And to the woods they take their flight.

Tawney

            
            Tis sweet in palaces to dwell,
            
            Where music's strains voluptuous swell;
            
            'Tis sweet to hear the loved one's voice;
            
            But wise men, of deliberate choice,
            
            Have run from these to forest glades,
            
            Assured all earthly pleasure fades,
            
            Swift as the moth in heedless game
            
            Puffs out the taper's feeble flame.

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            XCII 
            
            Is there no pleasure in these palace halls,
            
            Where love invites and music ever calls?
            
            No pleasure, when the revelers troop away,
            
            If one, the loveliest, stay?
            
            Yet have the prudent weighed the world as froth;
            
            Lo, as a candle-flame by wing of moth
            
            Is fluttered, so they count its fickle mood;
            
            They turn to solitude.

Mādhavānanda

            
              रम्यं हर्म्यतलं न किं वसतये श्रव्यं न गेयादिकं
            
                किं वा प्राणसमासमागमसुखं नैवाधिकप्रीतये ।
            
              किंतु भ्रान्तपतङ्गपक्षपवनव्यालोल­दीपाङ्कुर-
            
                च्छायाचञ्चलमाकलय्य सकलं सन्तो वनान्तं गता: ।।८०।।
            
            80. Is not a palace pleasant to dwell in? Is not music with its accompaniments agreeable to listen to? Is not the society of women, dear as life itself, very pleasing? Yet, wise men have gone away to the forest, regarding these things as  unstable as the shadow of a lamp’s flame flickering through the puff of the wings of a deluded moth.
            
            [ भ्रान्त also means ‘hovering’.]

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रम्पं हर्म्यतलं नं किं वसवये श्राव्यं न गेयादिकं

किं वा प्राणसमासमागमसुखं नैवाधिकं प्रीतये ।

किं तूझान्तपतत्पतङ्गपवनव्यालोलदीपाकुर

छाया चञ्चलमाकलय्य सकलं सन्तो वनान्तं गताः ॥ ६८ ॥

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LXVIII . ( @ ) श्रा ° ; श्र ० . P. B. N. Bo.n. ( 6 ) ° मास ० > ० मं स . A.

° कम् ; ° क ° M. x .

( c ) तूद्रा ० , तुम्ना ० . T. K. N. G. Bo . तूम्भ्रा ० , M. तत्रा ०. A. ° पतप P

तज्ज्ञ ' ; पतपक्ष ° T. K. G. N. ( d ) सकळम् ; सततम् Bo ( orig . Bo.n. )

I. ● ता :; तम् . G.

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St. LVIII . = . comp . ( Nitis'ataka ) ; but

this is more appropriate , meaning a small light . flame ;

says Râmarshi , of which I cannot see the application

here . comp . Kadambarî p . 7. On : Râmarshi gives a

long list of old princes as Bharata , Dilipa , Raghu & c . The Stanza

occurs at p . 308 of the Kavyasangraha . - S'árdúlavikridita .

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Kosambi

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रम्यं हर्म्यतलं न किं वसतये श्रव्यं न गेयादिकं

किं वा प्राणसमासमागमसुखं नैवाधिकप्रीतये |

किं तद्धान्त पतत्पतंगपवनव्यालोलदीपाकर

च्छायाचञ्चलमाकलय्य सततं सन्तो वनान्तं गताः ॥ ३१५ ॥

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315 { V } Om in B , Jodhpur1 , BORI 326 , Srngeri 309 , BVB5 and Harilal '

lith . ed . Ujjain 6414 V64 ( 60 ) , 65 ( 61 ) . - a 4 ) J3 वसति ये . D lacuna ; E5 F2-4 J

W Y1 - 5 GM श्राव्यं ( for श्रव्यं ) . M2 गेयादि किं . — ) G2 नैवा ( for किं वा ) . D E3.4

I G2t प्राणसमं ( for समा- ) . W 3 - समागमसुखे ; Yant M1.4.5 गमागमसुखं ; Y2 ( m.v.as

in text ) गमागतसुखं ; Y + गमोत्सवसुखं ; T3 समागमसुतं C D Es . 4 F2-5 H W X Y1-8

G1 . 8.4 M नैवाधिकं ; Js Yr नैवाधिकः . Fs प्राप्तये ; X1 . 2 ( orig . ) प्रीयते ( for -प्रीतये . ) . - ( )

D Fs Jat.3 W Y3 - 8 T G1.3c5 M1 245 सु ; F2 . 3 I G2t तद् ; Ya भू ; Gst - -चिद् चिदू ; ; G + नु .

( for तूदू- ) . 08 ( except M4.0 ) -पतंगपक्ष- ( for पतत्पतंग ) . CYr G5 ] व्याधूत ( for

भ्यालोल ) . C दीपानलचू ; YT Y7 -नीपांकुरचू – ( 4 d ) G1 M13 -ज्वाला ( for छाया ) . C

E0 . 2.6 F H J ( Js by corr . ) 8 ( except W Y7 ) सकलं ; D वदनं ( for सततं ) .

X गतः .

BIS , 5714 ( 2589 ) Bhartr ed . Bohl . 3. 81. Haeb . 76. lith ed . I. 79 , III . 77 .

Galan 74. Kāvyakal . 26 Nitisamk . 67 ; Sp . 4114 ( Bh . ) ; SRB 373. 181 ; SBH .

3326 ; SKM . 131.51 ( Vijñānātman ) ; SDK ● 5. 65. 2 ( p . 320 , Vijñānātman ) ;

SRH . 197. 36 ( Bh . ) ; Santiśataka 2. 14 .