चिन्तादुहितरो बह्व्यो भूरिदुर्ललितैधिताः । चञ्चलाः प्रभवन्त्यस्यास्तरङ्गाः सरितो यथा ॥ ३ ॥
cintāduhitarō bahvyō bhūridurlalitaidhitāḥ | cañcalāḥ prabhavantyasyāstaraṅgāḥ saritō yathā || 3 ||
Translation
Many daughters she has, the cares, nourished by much wanton conduct; restless, they spring from her as waves from a river.
Word by word
- cintā
- the cares
- duhitarō
- (duhitaraḥ) daughters
- bahvyō
- (bahvyaḥ) many
- bhūri
- much
- durlalitai
- (durlalitaiḥ) by wanton conduct
- ēdhitāḥ
- (edhitāḥ) nourished
- cañcalāḥ
- restless
- prabhavanti
- spring
- asyās
- (asyāḥ) from her
- taraṅgāḥ
- waves
- saritō
- (saritaḥ) from a river
- yathā
- as
Meaning
Fortune has children, and they are cintā, cares and anxieties. The commentary sees the image whole: as waves rise from a river and are swelled by the wind, so worries are born from wealth and grow with every kind of wrong conduct it allows (durlalita, wanton or spoilt behaviour). One who has nothing worries about getting; one who has, worries about keeping, increasing and losing, and these cares are "many" and "restless" (cañcala). The reader may count them in their own life: each possession brings its anxieties with it, as surely as a river brings its waves. They are not an accident of wealth but its offspring.