Bhavana Sataka

Author(s): A S Gopani, Dharmshila Mahasati, Girishkumar P Shah Pandit
Publisher: Labhubhai P Mehta

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प्राज्यं राज्यसुखं विभूतिरमिता येषामतुल्यं बलं, ते नष्टा भरतादयो नृपतयो भूमण्डलाऽऽखण्डलाः । रामो रावणमर्दनोऽपि विगतः क्वैते गताः पाण्डवा राजानोऽपि महाबला मृतिमगुः का पामराणां कथा ॥७॥
Meaning:- Even the universal sovereigns like Bharata and others whose sway of suzerainty was vast, whose prosperity was boundless and whose bodily vigour was Ravana unparallelled became the targets of death. died and Rama, his slayer, also died. So also the very mighty and the world renowned five Pandavas. What to talk, then, of the ordinary pepole when the sovereign monarchs and the tributory kings all who were the receptacles of courage, wealth, and other paraphernalia, also were seized by the claws of Death ? (7)
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