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अकार्यप्रतिषेधश्च कार्याणां च प्रवर्तनम्।
प्रदानं च प्रदेयानाम् अदेयानामसंग्रहः॥

Prohibiting wrong actions, promoting right actions, giving what ought to be given, and not accepting what ought not to be taken. This shloka concisel...

governance (214) righteousness (134) dharma (540) ethics (803) leadership (279) charity (128)

अकार्यमसकृत् कृत्वा दृश्यन्ते ह्यधना नराः।
धनयुक्तास्त्वधर्मस्था दृश्यन्ते चापरे जनाः॥

Men who repeatedly do wrong are seen to be poor. However, other people who are wealthy yet established in unrighteousness are also seen. This verse o...

karma (500) fate (402) wealth (447) paradox (167) injustice (73) philosophy (290) human condition (13)

अकार्याण्यपि पर्याप्य कृत्वापिं वृजिनार्जनं।
विधीयते हितं यस्य स देहः कस्य सुस्थिरः॥

For whose benefit many wrongful deeds are done and sins are acquired—that body, for whom is it permanent? This is a philosophical question on the fut...

futility (143) impermanence (242) body (170) sin (135) karma (500) philosophy (290) mortality (89) vairagya (10)

अकार्ये तथ्यो वा भवति वितथः काममथवा
तथाप्युच्चैर्धाम्नां हरति महिमानं जनरवः।
तुलोत्तीर्णस्यापि प्रकटनिहताशेषतमसो
रवेस्तादृक्तेजो न हि भवति कन्यां गत इति॥

A rumor about the great may be true or false, but it still diminishes their glory. The sun, which destroys all darkness, does not have the same brilli...

rumor (5) reputation (56) gossip (23) slander (29) analogy (98) public opinion (4)

अकालचर्या विषमा च गोष्ठी कुमित्रसेवा न कदापि कार्या।
पश्याण्डजं पद्मवने प्रसुप्तं धनुर्विमुक्तेन शरेण भिन्नम्॥

Wandering at the wrong time, keeping bad company, and serving a bad friend should never be done. Look at the bird, sleeping in a lotus grove, that was...

prudence (75) danger (229) bad company (19) timeliness (8) fable (5) wisdom (1611) niti (75)

अकालजलदेन्दोः सा हृद्या वदनचन्द्रिका।
नित्यं कविचकोरैर्या पीयते न च हीयते॥

That pleasing moonlight of her face is constantly drunk by the poet-Chakora birds, and yet it never diminishes. This is a poetic compliment (kāvya). ...

poetry (588) beauty (1797) metaphor (1632) chakora (11) moon (394) face (40) inexhaustible beauty (1) kavya (34)

अकालजलदश्लोकैश् चित्रमात्मकृतैरिव।
जातः कादम्बरीरामो नाटके प्रवरः कविः॥

With his wonderful, self-made shlokas that are like unseasonal rain clouds, Kadambari-Rama was born, an excellent poet in drama. This is a verse of p...

poet (24) praise (189) drama (36) playwright (1) kadambari-rama (1) literature (31)

अकालजलदच्छन्नम् आलोक्य रविमण्डलम्।
चक्रवाकयुगं रौति रजनीभयशङ्कया॥

Seeing the disc of the sun covered by an unseasonal cloud, the pair of Chakravaka birds cries out in fear and suspicion that night has fallen. This v...

chakravaka (4) love (1567) separation (258) metaphor (1632) poetic convention (2) fear (252) nature (950)

अकालमृत्युं परिहृत्य जीवितं ददाति यो देहसुखं च देहिनाम्।
नतेन धात्रास्ति समः कुतोऽधिको न जीविताद्दानमिहातिरिच्यते॥

He who wards off untimely death and gives life and physical well-being to beings—the Creator is not equal to him, let alone greater. In this world, no...

gift of life (1) physician (11) vaidya (3) saving life (1) charity (128) medicine (51) praise (189)

अकालमृत्युर्विश्वासो विश्वसन् हि विपद्यते।
यस्मिन् करोति विश्वासं स जीवत्यपरो मृतः॥

Misplaced trust is untimely death. The one who trusts perishes. The one in whom trust is placed lives, while the other is dead. This is a cynical nīt...

trust (112) betrayal (168) danger (229) prudence (75) niti (75) cynicism (19) caution (269)

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