नाऽनयाऽपहृतार्थिन्या दुराधिपरिलीनया । पश्याम्यभव्यया लक्ष्म्या किञ्चिद् दुःखादृते सुखम् ॥ २० ॥
nā’nayā’pahṛtārthinyā durādhiparilīnayā | paśyāmyabhavyayā lakṣmyā kiñcid duḥkhādṛtē sukham || 20 ||
Translation
With this ill-omened Fortune, rich with what was taken from others and full of hidden cares, I see no happiness at all, but only sorrow.
Word by word
- na
- no
- anayā
- with this
- apahṛta
- what was taken from others
- arthinyā
- rich with
- dur
- evil
- ādhi
- cares
- parilīnayā
- full of hidden
- paśyāmi
- I see
- abhavyayā
- ill-omened
- lakṣmyā
- Fortune
- kiñcid
- at all
- duḥkhād
- (duḥkhāt) sorrow
- ṛtē
- but only
- sukham
- happiness
Meaning
The chain of images ends and Rāma gives his own verdict. Fortune is "rich with what was taken" (apahṛtārthinī): wealth is gained, the Dwivedi text explains, from what others have lost; the commentary reads it of those whom death has carried off, whose goods fortune seeks out. And she is "full of hidden cares" (durādhi-parilīnā), mental pains that lie concealed in her like thieves. "I see" (paśyāmi) matters: Rāma is not repeating a doctrine, he reports what he has seen. The reader is invited to look in the same way, without the hope that colours everything, and to say honestly what they see.