subhashitam

My Hubby better than Yours

2007-09-29T05:12:00.000-07:00

चतुर्: सखी मे भर्ता य्: लिखितम् तद् परो न् वाचयति।
तस्मात् अभ्यधिकोमे स्वयमपि लिखितम् स्वय्ं न् वाचयति॥

[One lady is saying to her friend]
My husband is very clever, what he writes nobody understands..
[The second lady answers]
My husband is even more clever, what he writes even he doesn't understand!

[Notes: These two ladies are boasting about their husbands' intelligence. I think this subhashitam is also suited for todays IT world. There are many s/w engineers amongst us who write code that nobody understands or sometimes not even themselves]

Knowledge

2006-08-14T10:53:00.001-07:00

न् चोरहार्यम् न् च् राजहार्यम् न् भ्रातृभाज्यं न् च् भारकारि ।
व्यये क्रृते वर्धत् एव् नित्यं विद्या धनं सर्व् धन: प्रधानम् ॥

Knowledge is the best of all kinds of wealth.. no one can steal it from you.. a tyrannical king can't take it away from you.. it cannot be divided among the siblings( like the hereditary wealth) .. and the most important thing is , when you spend this wealth (i.e share your knowledge with somebody) instead of reducing .. It grows even more

The Miser

2006-07-21T06:54:00.000-07:00

कृपणेन समो दाता न भूतो न भविष्यति।
अस्पृश्यन्नेव वित्तानि य: परेभ्य: प्रयच्छति॥

The greatest miser is the greatest philanthropist in the world.. because he won't touch his money in his whole life. He doesn't enjoy his wealth... and when he is dead ..Other people get to enjoy the wealth.

The Teacher

2006-07-19T14:40:00.000-07:00

बहवो गुरवो लोके शिष्य् वित्तापहारका:।
भाग्येन् लभ्यते यस्तु शिष्य् चित्तापहारका:

It very easy to find a teacher(Guru) who expects money from Student. But its very hard to find a teacher who is just concerned about what student learns.

The Doctor

2006-07-19T06:56:00.000-07:00

वैद्यराज् नम्स्तुभ्यं यमज्येष्ठ सहोदर्।
यम्स्तु हरति प्राणान् त्वम् तु प्राणान् धनान्यपि॥

Hey Doctor .. salute to you. You are like a big brother of Yama( god of death) . Yama takes away only our lives but you take away not only lives but the money too..

About this blog

2006-07-19T06:47:00.000-07:00

I am going to write down all the sanskrit subhashitas that I remember. Feel free to correct any mistakes on this blog.

Thanks
Devaki

Note : The translations are not exact word to word.