चिन्तानिचयचक्राणि नाऽऽनन्दाय धनानि मे । संप्रसूतकलत्राणि गृहाण्युग्रापदामिव ॥ २६ ॥
cintānicayacakrāṇi nā’’nandāya dhanāni mē | saṁprasūtakalatrāṇi gṛhāṇyugrāpadāmiva || 26 ||
Translation
Wealth, a wheel of heaped-up cares, brings me no joy; nor do houses full of wives and children, which are like homes of fierce misfortune.
Word by word
- cintā
- of cares
- nicaya
- heaped-up
- cakrāṇi
- a wheel
- na
- no
- ānandāya
- joy
- dhanāni
- wealth
- mē
- to me
- saṁprasūta
- full of
- kalatrāṇi
- wives and children
- gṛhāṇi
- houses
- ugra
- fierce
- āpadām
- of misfortune
- iva
- like
Meaning
Wealth turns like a wheel of worries, each one bringing the next. A household, full and busy, is for Rāma not a refuge but a place where misfortune can strike from every side. The commentary reads "full of wives and children" as the cares a large family brings.