{"id":1202,"date":"2016-08-07T16:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2016-08-07T16:46:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T16:46:34","slug":"2-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-36\/","title":{"rendered":"2.36 avAchya vAdhAmS cha bahUn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><small>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama:<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/chapter-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapter 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-35\">&lt;&lt; Chapter 2 verse 35<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>SlOkam \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-36-original\/\">Original<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>avAchya vAdhAmS cha bahUn vadhishyanthi thavAhithA: |<\/em><br \/>\n<em> nindhanthas thava sAmarthyam thathO dhu:kha tharam nu kim ||<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>word-by-word meaning<\/h3>\n<p>thava ahithA: &#8211; your enemies dhuryOdhana et al<br \/>\nthava &#8211; your<br \/>\nsAmarthyam &#8211; ability<br \/>\nnindhantha: &#8211; will be using derogatory words<br \/>\nbahUn avAchyavAdhAn cha &#8211; using unutterable words<br \/>\nvadhishyanthi &#8211; will say;<br \/>\nthatha: &#8211; than hearing those<br \/>\ndhu:kha tharam &#8211; more painful<br \/>\nkimnu &#8211; is there anything?<\/p>\n<h3>Simple Translation<\/h3>\n<p>Your enemies dhuryOdhana et al will say derogatory and unutterable words to downplay your ability. Is there anything more painful than hearing those?<\/p>\n<h3>Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy\u2019s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018They will also be using language (to you) unutterable and derogatory, and speak of your ability with contumely. Is there anything more painful than this?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your antagonists, the hosts of Dh\u1e5bitar\u0101shtra et al, will be deriding you thus: \u2018How for a single moment could P\u0101rtha stand before heroes like ourselves? His boasts are elsewhere than in our presence.\u2019 Thus would they be freely discussing in a style, inexpressible and unworthy for heroes. What pain to you could be greater than this? You will surely know that death is much better than having to listen to such calumny!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence the next verse declares that for a hero, either course is beneficent: to himself kill others, or himself be killed by others:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-37\">&gt;&gt; Chapter 2 verse 37<\/a><\/p>\n<p>archived in <a href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\">https:\/\/githa.koyil.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>pramEyam (goal) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/koyil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramANam (scriptures) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org\">http:\/\/granthams.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\npramAthA (preceptors) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org\">http:\/\/acharyas.koyil.org<\/a><br \/>\nSrIvaishNava education\/kids portal \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/pillai.koyil.org\/\">http:\/\/pillai.koyil.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SrI:\u00a0 SrImathE SatakOpAya nama:\u00a0 SrImathE rAmAnujAya nama:\u00a0 SrImath varavaramunayE nama: Chapter 2 &lt;&lt; Chapter 2 verse 35 SlOkam \u2013 Original avAchya vAdhAmS cha bahUn vadhishyanthi thavAhithA: | nindhanthas thava sAmarthyam thathO dhu:kha tharam nu kim || word-by-word meaning thava ahithA: &#8211; your enemies dhuryOdhana et al thava &#8211; your sAmarthyam &#8211; ability nindhantha: &#8211; will &#8230; <a title=\"2.36 avAchya vAdhAmS cha bahUn\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/2-36\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2.36 avAchya vAdhAmS cha bahUn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-2","category-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/githa.koyil.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}