Sanskrit Jokes

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parAnnaM prApya durbuddhe mA prANeshhu dayAM kuru |

durlabhAni parAnnAni prAnAH janmani janmani !!

 

You idiot, dont show any pity for your life if you are

getting food from someone else (free food). (Go on,

stufff yourself ! fall sick !) Free food is rare ,

whereas as far as lives are concerned, you will get

one at every birth !! (I am sure all grad students

will strongly agree with this : )

 

kiM vAsasetyatra vichAraNIyaM vAsaH pradhAnaM khalu

yogyatAyai |

pItAmbaraM vIkshya dadau svakanAM digambaraM vIkshya

vishhaM samudraH ||

sandhi vigraha

kiM vAsasA iti atra vichAraNIyaM vAsaH pradhAnaM

khalu yogyatAyai |

pItAmbaraM vIkshya dadau svakanAM digambaraM vIkshya

vishhaM samudraH ||

 

One should indeed ponder upon the question, "What's in

one's apparel ?". Apparel is indeed important for

appropriateness. After looking at the one dressed in a

rich yellow cloth (vishnu), the sea gave him his

daughter (laxmi) and looking at the one dressedin

nothing, (Shiva) the sea gave poison ! (halAhala)

 

pratyaksha kavikaavyaM cha ruupaM cha kulayoshhitaH |

gR^ihavaidyasya vidyaa cha kasmaichidyadi rochate ||

 

The composition of a contemporary poet and the beauty

of one's own wife do not appeal to man, and it is

indeed true generally that neither a saint nor an

artist is ever recognized and honoured in his own time

or clime.

 

guNavat jana samsarga at ya asti nIcha api gouravam |

pushpa mAlA prasanga Ena sUtram shira asi dhAryatE ||

 

Just like the thread being worn in the head

(respected) along with the flowers in a garland, a

rouge will also acquire respect (for himself) with the

association of (being with) good people (sajjana).

 

 

dAtavyaM bhoktavyaM dhana vishhaye sa.nchayaH na

kartavyaH |

pashya iha madhukarINAM sa.nchita arthaM haranti anye

||

It should be given or enjoyed and spent. As far as

money is concerned it should never be stocked up. Look

here, the collected savings of the bees are stolen by

others.

 

tyajanti mitrANi dhanaiH vihInaM dArAH cha putrAH cha

suhR^id.h janAH cha |

taM arthavantaM punaH Ashrayanti arthaH hi loke

purushhasya bandhuH ||

shabdArtha

 

Friends leave the man without money, so do wives, sons

and other affectionate people. They all come back

after the man is again wealthy : Wealth is the only

real brother of man in this world.

 

kaH na yAti vashaM loke mukhaM pINDena pUritaH |

mR^ida.ngaH mukha lepena karoti madhuraM dhvaniM ||

 

In this world who indeed wont come under control once

his/her mouth is filled with food ? Even the

mridanga makes a sweet sound after its mouth is

smeared.

 

 

 

 

 

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