समतासुन्दरं वक्त्रं पुरुषस्याऽवलोकयन् । तोषमेति यथा लोको न तथा धनसंचयैः ॥ १९ ॥
samatāsundaraṁ vaktraṁ puruṣasyā’valōkayan | tōṣamēti yathā lōkō na tathā dhanasaṁcayaiḥ || 19 ||
Translation
People are not so pleased by heaps of riches as they are by looking on the face of a person beautiful with evenness.
Word by word
- samatā
- with evenness
- sundaraṁ
- beautiful
- vaktraṁ
- the face
- puruṣasya
- of a person
- avalōkayan
- looking on
- tōṣam
- pleasure
- ēti
- comes to
- yathā
- as
- lōkō
- (lokaḥ) people
- na
- not
- tathā
- so
- dhana
- of riches
- saṁcayaiḥ
- by heaps
Meaning
Contentment is not only the contented one's gain. Others are glad to see it, more than they are glad of wealth. A face made beautiful by evenness asks nothing of the one who looks at it, and that is rare enough to delight.