त्रैलोक्यविजयकवचपाठफलम्The fruit of reciting the armour
Verse 68
अपुत्रो लभते पुत्रं धनार्थी प्राप्नुयाद्धनम् । विद्यार्थी लभते विद्यां कामी कामानवाप्नुयात् ॥ ६८ ॥
aputrō labhatē putraṁ dhanārthī prāpnuyāddhanam | vidyārthī labhatē vidyāṁ kāmī kāmānavāpnuyāt || 68 ||
Translation
The childless gains a son, the one who seeks wealth gains wealth; the one who seeks learning gains learning, the one who desires gains his desires.
Word by word
- aputrō
- (aputraḥ) the childless
- labhatē
- gains
- putraṁ
- a son
- dhana
- wealth
- arthī
- who seeks
- prāpnuyād
- (prāpnuyāt) gains
- dhanam
- wealth
- vidyā
- learning
- vidyāṁ
- learning
- kāmī
- the one who desires
- kāmān
- his desires
- avāpnuyāt
- gains
Meaning
A formula found in many armours and hymns: each gets what he seeks. It is not a moral ranking of wishes; it says that the Goddess answers people where they are. The higher teaching of the chapter, at its end, will lift the reader beyond wishes altogether.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 67.