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Agnir nisristo dattas cha garo daras cha dushitah
Hritam kshetram dhanam yesam tad dattair asubhih kiyat.
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Agnir—fire, Nisristo—set in, Dattas—given, Cha-and, Garo—poison, Daras—married wife, Dushitah—insulted, Hritam—usurped, Kshetram—kingdom, Dhanam—wealth, Yesam—of those, Tad—their, Dattam—given by, Asubhih—subsisting, Kiyat—is unnecessary.
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There is no necessity of living a degraded life subsisted by the charity of those whom you tried to kill by setting on fire in their house by administering poison, by insulting their married wife, by usurping their kingdom and wealth.
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The system of Varnashram religion sets aside a part of one's life completely for the purpose of self-realisation and attainment of salvation in the human form of life. That is a routine division of life but persons like Dhritarastra even at their weary ripen age want to keep up at home even in a degraded condition as to accept charity from enemies. Vidura wanted to point out this anomaly in his brother's life and impressed upon him that it was better for him to die like his sons than accepting such humiliating charity. Five thousands of years before there was one Dhritarastra but at the present moment there are full of Dhritarastras in every home. Specially the politicians do not wish to retire from political activities unless they are dragged by the cruel hand of death or killed by some opposing element. To stick to family life up to the end of one's human life is the grossest type of degradation and there is absolute need of educating such Dhritarastras by the Viduras even at the present moment.
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#dl##dd#agnir nisṛṣṭo dattaś ca#/dd#
#dd#garo dārāś ca dūṣitāḥ#/dd#
#dd#hṛtaṁ kṣetraṁ dhanaṁ yeṣāṁ#/dd#
#dd#tad-dattair asubhiḥ kiyat#/dd##/dl#
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#i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=agniḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#agniḥ#/i# — fire; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=nisṛṣṭaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#nisṛṣṭaḥ#/i# — set; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=dattaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#dattaḥ#/i# — given; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ca&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ca#/i# — and; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=garaḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#garaḥ#/i# — poison; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=dārāḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#dārāḥ#/i# — married wife; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=ca&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#ca#/i# — and; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=dūṣitāḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#dūṣitāḥ#/i# — insulted; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=hṛtam&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#hṛtam#/i# — usurped; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kṣetram&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kṣetram#/i# — kingdom; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=dhanam&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#dhanam#/i# — wealth; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=yeṣām&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#yeṣām#/i# — of those; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=tat&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#tat#/i# — their; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=dattaiḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#dattaiḥ#/i# — given by; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=asubhiḥ&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#asubhiḥ#/i# — subsisting; #i##a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="//vanipedia.org/wiki/Special:VaniSearch?s=kiyat&tab=syno_o&ds=1"#kiyat#/i# — is unnecessary.
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There is no need to live a degraded life and subsist on the charity of those whom you tried to kill by arson and poisoning. You also insulted one of their wives and usurped their kingdom and wealth.
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The system of #i#varṇāśrama#/i# religion sets aside a part of one's life completely for the purpose of self-realization and attainment of salvation in the human form of life. That is a routine division of life, but persons like Dhṛtarāṣṭra, even at their weary ripened age, want to stay home, even in a degraded condition of accepting charity from enemies. Vidura wanted to point this out and impressed upon him that it was better to die like his sons than accept such humiliating charity. Five thousand years ago there was one Dhṛtarāṣṭra, but at the present moment there are Dhṛtarāṣṭras in every home. Politicians especially do not retire from political activities unless they are dragged by the cruel hand of death or killed by some opposing element. To stick to family life to the end of one's human life is the grossest type of degradation and there is an absolute need for the Viduras to educate such Dhṛtarāṣṭras, even at the present moment.
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