त्यक्तुं कर्तुं न चार्हन्ति सदा कातरचेतसः । वेदार्थयुक्तशास्त्राणि स्मृतिरूपाणि भूतले ॥ ३२ ॥
tyaktuṁ kartuṁ na cārhanti sadā kātaracētasaḥ | vēdārthayuktaśāstrāṇi smṛtirūpāṇi bhūtalē || 32 ||
Translation
Ever faint-hearted, they could neither perform it nor give it up. Then, on earth, you made known the scriptures of the smṛti, joined to the meaning of the Veda,
Word by word
- tyaktuṁ
- to give up
- kartuṁ
- to perform
- na
- not
- cārhanti
- and they were able
- sadā
- always
- kātaracētasaḥ
- faint-hearted
- vēdārthayuktaśāstrāṇi
- scriptures joined to the meaning of the Veda
- smṛtirūpāṇi
- in the form of smṛti
- bhūtalē
- on earth
Meaning
Hariharānanda explains the bind: they could not give up the Vedic rite, having heard of the faults of abandoning it, and could not perform it, since it was achieved only with much hardship.