उपनिषद् · Mahā 3.47
॥
देवनागरी
सर्वेषां दोषरत्नानां सुसमुद्गिकयानया दुःखशृङ्खलया नित्यमलमस्तु मम स्त्रिया
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
sarveṣāṃ doṣaratnānāṃ susamudgikayānayā duḥkhaśṛṅkhalayā nityamalamastu mama striyā
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
सर्वेषाम् दोष-रत्नानाम्sarveṣām doṣa-ratnānāmof all the gems of vice; for all the jewels of depravity
सु-समुद्गिकया अनयाsu-samudgikayā anayāwith this fine little casket; with this shapely little coffer
दुःख-शृङ्खलया नित्यम्duḥkha-śṛṅkhalayā nityamwith this everlasting chain of suffering; with this eternal fetter of misery
अलम् अस्तु मम स्त्रियाalam astu mama striyāenough for me of woman; let me have done with woman
अनुवाद
“Enough for me of woman — this shapely casket for all the gems of vice, this everlasting chain of suffering.”
संस्करण
b8a06dd20d1f · प्रकाशित 29 जुल॰ 2026, 6:29:20 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
The series' conclusion, and it is pronounced as a vow: alam astu mama — “let it be enough for me”.
This is the formula of refusal with which one ends a dispute with oneself. Nidāgha does not denounce — he forswears.
The image of the casket is curious in its doubleness. Samudgikā is a coffer for ornaments, a costly and beautiful thing; and in it are laid doṣa-ratna, “the gems of vices”. The oxymoron is deliberate: what seems a jewel is named a vice, and the reverse.
Note what the vow refers to. Not to women as people, but to his own part in what he has just described: to the chase, the snares, the hook.
The next verse will say this without images, and there it will be seen that the real target was all along another.