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VR • Kāṇḍa 4 • Sarga 31: Kiṣkindhākāṇḍa Sarga 31

VR 4.31.7

Canonical Ref: VR 4.31.7
Metrical Form: अनुष्टुप्
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
सर्वथा सुकरं मित्रं दुष्करं परिपालनम् । अनित्यत्वात्तु चित्तानां प्रीतिरल्पेऽपि भिद्यते ॥
Roman Transliteration (IAST)
sarvathā sukaraṃ mitraṃ duṣkaraṃ paripālanam | anityatvāttu cittānāṃ prītiralpe'pi bhidyate ||
English Scholarly Translation
It is easy to contract friendship but very difficult to sustain it; for owing to the fickleness of our minds, a very slight cause bring about separation.

Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)

Grammatical Parsing
सर्वथा
Lemma: सर्वथा
POS: ind
सुकरं
Lemma: सुकर
POS: adj
मित्रं
Lemma: मित्र
POS: mn
दुष्करं
Lemma: दुष्कर
POS: adj
परिपालनम्
Lemma: परिपालन
POS: n
अनित्यत्वात्
Lemma: अनित्य
POS: adj
अनित्यत्वात्
Lemma: त्व
POS: n
तु
Lemma: तु
POS: ind
चित्तानां
Lemma: चित्त
POS: n
प्रीतिर्
Lemma: प्रीति
POS: f
अल्पे
Lemma: अल्प
POS: adj
ऽपि
Lemma: अपि
POS: ind
भिद्यते
Lemma: भिद्
POS: 6. P. • Verb: भिद्यते
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam, VR 4.31.7. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.
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