Aṣṭāvakra Gītā / Aṣṭāvakra (अध्याय १८) / 18.62
18.62
the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā (अष्टावक्र गीता)
परिग्रहेषु वैराग्यं प्रायो मूढस्य दृश्यते ।
देहे विगलिताशस्य क्व रागः क्व विरागता parigraheṣu vairāgyaṃ prāyo mūḍhasya dṛśyate |
dehe vigalitāśasya kva rāgaḥ kva virāgatā
The line
Dispassion among possessions is, for the most part, seen in the dull one. For the one whose hope in the body has melted, where is passion, and where is the state of dispassion?
नेपालीमा
परिग्रहहरूमा वैराग्य प्रायः मूर्खमै देखिन्छ। देहमा आशा पग्लिसकेको मानिसको राग कहाँ छ, विरागको अवस्था कहाँ छ?
Where it sits
Aṣṭāvakra (अष्टावक्र) is still speaking, and the dull one of the previous verse is now the one who shows dispassion among possessions.
Split: parigraheṣu (परिग्रहेषु) + vairāgyam (वैराग्यम्) + prāyaḥ (प्रायः) + mūḍhasya (मूढस्य) + dṛśyate (दृश्यते) + dehe (देहे) + vigalitāśasya (विगलिताशस्य) + kva (क्व) + rāgaḥ (रागः) + kva (क्व) + virāgatā (विरागता)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| parigraheṣu (परिग्रहेषु) | locative plural, masculine | among possessions, among what one holds as one's own. |
| vairāgyam (वैराग्यम्) | nominative singular, neuter | dispassion. Subject of dṛśyate (दृश्यते). |
| prāyaḥ (प्रायः) | indeclinable | for the most part. Recited prāyo (प्रायो) before m (म्). |
| mūḍhasya (मूढस्य) | genitive singular, masculine | of the dull one. |
| dṛśyate (दृश्यते) | present third person singular, passive | is seen. From dṛś (दृश्). |
| dehe (देहे) | locative singular, masculine | in the body. |
| vigalitāśasya (विगलिताशस्य) | genitive singular, masculine | of one whose hope has melted. āśā (आशा) is hope. vigalita (विगलित) is melted away. |
| kva (क्व) | indeclinable | where? |
| rāgaḥ (रागः) | nominative singular, masculine | passion, coloring. |
| kva (क्व) | indeclinable | where? |
| virāgatā (विरागता) | nominative singular, feminine | the state of dispassion. virāga (विराग) is the absence of passion. tā (ता) makes the state. |
The phrases
vairāgyam (वैराग्यम्) is seen parigraheṣu (परिग्रहेषु), and prāyaḥ (प्रायः) limits it to the usual case of the mūḍha (मूढ). The genitive vigalitāśasya (विगलिताशस्य) is the person of the two kva (क्व) questions, and dehe (देहे) says where the hope melted.
Sanskrit in this line
prāyaḥ (प्रायः) before the voiced m (म्) of mūḍhasya (मूढस्य) is recited prāyo (प्रायो). The visarga of rāgaḥ (रागः) stays, because kva (क्व) begins with an unvoiced k (क्).
Say it back
Once hope in the body has melted, which two states have no place?