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अस्थिष्वर्थाः सुखं मांसे त्वचि भोगाः स्त्रियोऽक्षिषु।
गतौ यानं स्वरे चाज्ञा सर्वं सत्त्वे प्रतिष्ठितम्॥

This verse reflects on the essence of worldly enjoyments and experiences: wealth is rooted in bones, pleasures in flesh, sensual enjoyments in skin, a...

essence (70) body-mind (2) sensory delusion (2) pleasure (82) transience (62) feminine attraction (1) spiritual core (1) awareness (73) worldly experience (1) impermanence (242)

अस्थिस्थूणं स्नायुयुतं मांसशोणितलेपनम्।
चर्मावनद्धं दुर्गन्धि पूर्णं मूत्रपुरीषयोः॥

A stark, anatomical reflection on the human body: built like a pillar of bones, bound with sinews, covered in skin, smeared with flesh and blood, and ...

detachment (573) human body (6) realism (46) transience (62) mortality (89) inner impurity (5) disgust (7) reflection (267) physical structure (1) vairagya (10)

जराशोकसमाविष्टं रोगायतनमातुरम्।
रजस्वलमनित्यं च भूतावासमिमं त्यजेत्॥

The body, afflicted by old age, grief, and disease, a residence of ghosts (past karmas), unclean and impermanent—such a house must be renounced by the...

old age (29) suffering (358) disease (31) renunciation (267) impermanence (242) spirituality (106) mortality (89) karma (500) inner realization (2) dispassion (12)

नदीकूलं यथा वृक्षं वृक्षं वा शकुनिर्यथा।
तथा त्यजन्निमं देहं कृच्छ्राद् ग्राहाद् विमुच्यते॥

Just as a tree on a riverbank eventually gets uprooted, or a bird leaves a tree, so does the soul eventually leave the body, as if rescued from the gr...

death (241) metaphor (1632) tree (45) bird (28) body-soul separation (1) impermanence (242) release (6) simile (28) spiritual realization (3) nature (950)

अस्थीनि मज्जा शुक्लं च पितुरंशास्त्रयो मताः।
रक्तं रोमाणि पललम् अंशा मातुरमी मता॥

Philosophical anatomy of birth: bones, marrow, and semen are from the father; blood, hair, and skin from the mother—suggesting that the body is a prod...

birth (57) parentage (2) human body (6) composition (13) dual origin (1) anatomy (16) father-mother contribution (1) spiritual insight (19) soul (76) philosophical reflection (4)

अस्थीन्यस्थीन्यजिनमजिनं भस्म भस्मेन्दुरिन्दुर्
गङ्गा गङ्गोरग उरग इत्याकुलाः संभ्रमेण।
भूषावेषोपकरणगणप्रापणव्यापृतानां
नृत्तारम्भप्रणयिनि शिवे पान्तु वाचो गणानाम्॥

A tongue-twisting verse playing on repeated words with dual meanings (bone/asthi, skin/ajina, ash/bhasma, moon/indu, etc.), invoking Ganesh’s grace at...

shiva (328) ganesha (27) dance (75) repetition (30) wordplay (33) invocation (4) language (42) dual meaning (1) bhakti (70) devotional poetry (6)

अस्नाताशी मलं भुङ्क्ते अजपी पूयभक्षणम्।
अहुताशी विषं भुङ्क्ते अदाता विषमश्नुते॥

A dharmic warning: one who eats without bathing eats filth; who chants without initiation consumes pus; who eats food not offered to gods consumes poi...

purity (356) ritual (164) dharma (540) initiation (9) food ethics (5) giving (75) poison (101) cleanliness (8) sin (135) consequences (70)

अस्पृश्यसंगतिमिह प्रविधाय सोढा
दण्डाहतीः पटह बन्धमपि प्रपद्य।
दोषं प्रकाशयसि यत्प्रतिरथ्यमेव
लोकस्य तद्विमुखतां प्रकटीकरोषि॥

Associating with outcastes (as per social dharma), enduring punishments, yet choosing to declare the faults of others in public—such actions show one'...

hypocrisy (141) social ethics (8) public shame (4) morality (248) reputation (56) outcaste (3) punishment (78) self-fault (1) irony (348) karma (500)

अस्पृश्योऽस्तु मलीमसोऽस्त्वनियताहारोऽस्त्वतोऽप्युद्भटैर्
दोषैरस्तु परःशतैः परिवृतः काकस्ततः का क्षतिः।
भुङ्क्ते भोज्यमुपस्थितं समुपहूयैव स्वयं बान्धवान् यः
सीदन् क्षुधया विचिन्तय ततो धन्यश्च पुण्यश्च कः॥

Even if impure, foul, erratic in food, and surrounded by faults, the crow is still superior—he feeds himself and others. More virtuous is he who, even...

charity (128) crow (45) faults (8) virtue (726) sharing (26) hunger (39) humility (596) merit (120) irony (348) ethics (803)

अस्पृष्टे राहुभीत्याहनि निशि च समे कल्मषच्छाययोने
हासत्रासाद् विदूरे समुपचितविभावैभवे हृद्यगन्धे।
पाथोदाच्छादहीने धरणितलगतादुर्लभे सर्वलोका-
ह्लादं चाप्यादधाने सुमुखि तव मुखौपम्यलेशः सुधांशौ॥

This verse poetically says that your moonlike face is so pure and beautiful that the moon itself, fearing comparison, hides during eclipses and dark n...

beauty (1797) comparison (402) moon (394) shyness (81) feminine grace (48) praise (189) love (1567) imagery (157) simile (28) poetic metaphor (101)

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