दुरन्तेयं किल विषयविषूचिका यदि न चिकित्स्यते तन्नितरां नरकनगरनिकरफलानुबन्धिनी तत्तत्करोति ॥ १५ ॥
durantēyaṁ kila viṣayaviṣūcikā yadi na cikitsyatē tannitarāṁ narakanagaranikaraphalānubandhinī tattatkarōti || 15 ||
Translation
This cholera of the senses is hard to end. If it is not treated, it binds a person fast to the fruit found in the massed cities of hell, and brings about each of those things.
Word by word
- durantā
- hard to end
- iyaṁ
- this
- kila
- indeed
- viṣaya
- of the senses
- viṣūcikā
- cholera
- yadi
- if
- na
- not
- cikitsyatē
- it is treated
- tan
- (tat) then
- nitarāṁ
- fast
- naraka
- of hell
- nagara
- the cities
- nikara
- massed
- phala
- to the fruit
- anubandhinī
- binding
- tattat
- each of those things
- karōti
- brings about
Meaning
The illness of verse 10 returns, and so does the logic of medicine: it is grave, and it has a course if left alone. Duranta means hard to cut off, and also ending badly. The commentary reads the cities of hell strikingly: they are bodies, those towns of filth, and the attachment binds a person to them and to those he keeps, wife and children. Tat-tat, each of those things, points forward to the next verse. The warning is addressed to a person who could still treat the illness, and the conditional yadi na, if not, is the whole point of it.