KAKOLUKIYAM-PTKU27

 SUBHASHITHANI:444

AriMardana then turned to  VakraNāsa and asked him - what should we do in this situation? VakraNasa told the story of ब्राह्मणचौरपिशाचकथा- The stoy of the brahmin, thief and the ghost. This story is entirely in prose and contains no slokas. In essence he was for accepting sthirajeevin , as in the story even those who came to harm ended up in doing some good.

AriMardana then asked yet another minister called PrākāraKarna about his opinion:

वल्मीकोदरस्थसर्पकथा -
The story of the snakes in the stomach and the ant-hill

परस्परस्य मर्माणि ये न रक्षन्ति जन्तवः ।
त एव निधनं यान्ति वल्मीकोदर-सर्पवत् ॥ १९१ ॥
parasparasya marmāṇi ye na rakṣanti jantavaḥ |
ta eva nidhanaṃ yānti valmīkodara-sarpavat || 3.191 ||
Those who do not protect each other’s secrets, they invariably die like the snakes living in the ant-hill and in the stomach. ( There are no slokas in this story also)

After haring all the ministers, Arimardhana decided to give asylum to the crow and informed it to all of them. However, Raktaksha who recommended killing the enemy felt they were making a huge mistake.

अपूज्या यत्र पूज्यन्ते पूज्यानां तु विमानना ।
त्रीणि तत्र प्रवर्तन्ते दुर्भिक्षं मरणं भयम् ॥ १९२ ॥

apūjyā yatra pūjyante pūjyānāṃ tu vimānanā |
trīṇi tatra pravartante durbhikṣaṃ maraṇaṃ bhayam || 3.192 ||

In a Country or community where persons unfit for being revered are revered, and those who deserve to be revered are shown disrespect and humiliated, these three scourges, namely famine, death and fear prevail.

The story of the gullible carpenter :

प्रत्यक्षेऽपि कृते पापे मूर्खः साम्ना प्रशाम्यति ।
रथ-कारः स्वकां भार्यां सजारां शिरसावहत् ॥ १९३ ॥

pratyakṣe'pi kṛte pāpe mūrkhaḥ sāmnā praśāmyati |
ratha-kāraḥ svakāṃ bhāryāṃ sajārāṃ śirasāvahat || 3.193 ||

Even if a sin is committed in broad daylight, a fool who witnesses it can be tricked into believing otherwise. Just like the foolish carpenter was tricked into carrying his promiscuous wife and her lover on his own shoulders.

यदि स्यात् पावकः शीतः प्रोष्णी वा शश-लाञ्छनः ।
स्त्रीणां तदा सतीत्वं स्याद् यदि स्याद् दुर्जनो हितः ॥ १९४ ॥

yadi syāt pāvakaḥ śītaḥ proṣṇī vā śaśa-lāñchanaḥ |
strīṇāṃ tadā satītvaṃ syād yadi syād durjano hitaḥ || 3.194 ||

When fire tends to be cold, when moon tends to be warm or the wicked tend to be helpful only then it is possible that women are faithful.

यच् च वेदेषु शास्त्रेषु न दृष्टं न च संश्रुतम् ।
तत् सर्वं वेत्ति लोको ऽयं यत् स्याद् ब्रह्माण्ड-मध्यगम् ॥ १९५ ॥

yac ca vedeṣu śāstreṣu na dṛṣṭaṃ na ca saṃśrutam |
tat sarvaṃ vetti loko 'yaṃ yat syād brahmāṇḍa-madhyagam || 3.195 ||

Things that are not seen or heard even in the vedas are sastras, the public somehow come to know about any thing and every thing that happens in any nook and corner of the earth.

(This is when there was no internet or whatsap) 

दुर्दिवसे घन-तिमिरे वर्षति जलदे महाटवी-प्रभृतौ ।
पत्युर् विदेश-गमने परम-सुखं जघन-चपलायाः ॥ १९६ ॥

durdivase ghana-timire varṣati jalade mahāṭavī-prabhṛtau |
patyur videśa-gamane parama-sukhaṃ jaghana-capalāyāḥ || 3.196 ||

On a day when there are dense dark clouds, raining heavily and streets are mired with sticky clay, when the husband has gone to another city, the flirt becomes supremely happy.

( The story ends with the unfaithful wife successfully deceiving her gullible husband by clever acting )

SRI KRISHNAYA THUBHYAM NAMAH