क्रौर्यमत्रैव पर्याप्तं लुब्धताऽत्रैव संस्थिता । सर्वदौर्भाग्यमत्रैव चापलं वाऽपि दुःसहम् ॥ २० ॥
krauryamatraiva paryāptaṁ lubdhatā’traiva saṁsthitā | sarvadaurbhāgyamatraiva cāpalaṁ vā’pi duḥsaham || 20 ||
Translation
All cruelty is complete here, all greed is settled here, all misfortune is here, and restlessness hard to bear.
Word by word
- krauryam
- cruelty
- atra
- here
- ēva
- all
- paryāptaṁ
- is complete
- lubdhatā
- greed
- saṁsthitā
- is settled
- sarva
- all
- daurbhāgyam
- misfortune
- cāpalaṁ
- restlessness
- vā
- and
- api
- also
- duḥsaham
- hard to bear
Meaning
The commentary: Time is cruel beyond comparison, greedy beyond any other, the mine of misfortune and of unbearable restlessness. All the faults the earlier sargas found in fortune, craving and the mind are here gathered in one. The reader may see Time as the sum of everything Rāma has described.