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ŚB 10.54.11

Devanagari

भो भो: पुरुषशार्दूल दौर्मनस्यमिदं त्यज ।
न प्रियाप्रिययो राजन् निष्ठा देहिषु द‍ृश्यते ॥ ११ ॥

Text

bho bhoḥ puruṣa-śārdūla
daurmanasyam idaṁ tyaja
na priyāpriyayo rājan
niṣṭhā dehiṣu dṛśyate

Synonyms

bhoḥ bhoḥ — O sir; puruṣa — among men; śārdūla — O tiger; daurmana-syam — depressed state of mind; idam — this; tyaja — give up; na — no; priya — of the desirable; apriyayoḥ — or the undesirable; rājan — O King; niṣṭhā — permanence; dehiṣu — among embodied beings; dṛśyate — is seen.

Translation

[Jarāsandha said:] Listen, Śiśupāla, O tiger among men, give up your depression. After all, embodied beings’ happiness and unhappiness is never seen to be permanent, O King.