Canonical Ref: VR 3.28.20
Metrical Form: अनुष्टुप्
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
सर्वथा तु लघुत्वं ते कत्थनेन विदर्शितम् । सुवर्णप्रतिरूपेण तप्तेनेव कुशाग्निना ॥
Roman Transliteration (IAST)
sarvathā tu laghutvaṃ te katthanena vidarśitam | suvarṇapratirūpeṇa tapteneva kuśāgninā ||
English Scholarly Translation
As brass wearing the semblance of gold, displays its own defect on being heated*, with a fire lit with Kusa, so you have betrayed your own lightness by this speech of yours. i.c. becomes dusky, (Ramanuja).
Linguistic & Morphemic Analysis (Padaccheda)
Grammatical Parsing
सर्वथा
Lemma: सर्वथा
POS: ind
तु
Lemma: तु
POS: ind
लघुत्वं
Lemma: लघु
POS: adj
लघुत्वं
Lemma: त्व
POS: n
ते
Lemma: त्वद्
POS: pron
कत्थनेन
Lemma: कत्थन
POS: n
विदर्शितम्
Lemma: विदर्शय्
POS: 10. Ā.
सुवर्णप्रतिरूपेण
Lemma: सुवर्ण
POS: n
सुवर्णप्रतिरूपेण
Lemma: प्रतिरूप
POS: adj
तप्तेनेव
Lemma: तप्
POS: 4. Ā.
तप्तेनेव
Lemma: इव
POS: ind
कुशाग्निना
Lemma: कुश
POS: mn
कुशाग्निना
Lemma: अग्नि
POS: m
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇam, VR 3.28.20. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.