यदर्थम् इष्यते भार्या प्राप्तः सो ऽर्थस् त्वया मयि ॥
कन्या चैव कुमारश् च कृताहम् अनृणा त्वया ॥
समर्थः पोषणे चासि सुतयो रक्षणे तथा ॥
न त्व् अहं सुतयोः शक्ता तथा रक्षणपोषणे ॥
मम हि त्वद्विहीनायाः सर्वकामा न आपदः ॥
कथं स्यातां सुतौ बालौ भवेयं च कथं त्व् अहम् ॥
yadartham iṣyate bhāryā prāptaḥ so 'rthas tvayā mayi ||
kanyā caiva kumāraś ca kṛtāham anṛṇā tvayā ||
samarthaḥ poṣaṇe cāsi sutayo rakṣaṇe tathā ||
na tv ahaṃ sutayoḥ śaktā tathā rakṣaṇapoṣaṇe ||
mama hi tvadvihīnāyāḥ sarvakāmā na āpadaḥ ||
kathaṃ syātāṃ sutau bālau bhaveyaṃ ca kathaṃ tv aham ||
"The purpose for which a wife is sought, that purpose you have attained in me: both a daughter and a son have been born — I have made you free of debt. You are able to nourish and protect both children, but I am not able to do so; and without you, I would fulfill no desires at all — how then would the two young children survive, and how would I myself?"
799fc4e35de5 · publicado 12 jul 2026, 17:09:57 UTC
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Here the wife reasons with a clarity born of loving sacrifice. Telling is her argument: if someone must perish, let it be the one without whom the family will endure, not the one without whom it would collapse; a wise love weighs whose life is more needed by those who remain. Here is renunciation free of self-love: she judges not by her own wish to live, but by the good of her children and husband. Telling too is her humility: she acknowledges that her husband will preserve the children, while she cannot. Thus the text shows a love that thinks not of itself but of those it loves; and it is this selfless clear-sightedness that makes her sacrifice both valorous and meaningful.