BhartrihariБхартрихари
1 passageотрывков: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
4. Ночная бабочка летит в огонь лампы, не зная боли ожога; и рыба глотает червяка на удочке, не зная опасности; а вот мы не расстаемся с чувственными наслаждениями, хотя отлично знаем, что они опутаны сетью бедствий. Такова бездонная глубина безрассудства.
4. The moth flies into the flame of the lamp, not knowing the pain of the burn; and the fish swallows the worm on the hook, not knowing the danger; but we do not part with sensual pleasures, though we know very well that they are enmeshed in a net of calamities. Such is the bottomless depth of folly.
From Vairāgya-śataka · close to the original (more).
Original · Sanskritअजानन्दाहात्म्यं पततु शलभस्तीव्रदहने
स मीनोऽप्यज्ञानाद्बडिशयुतं अश्नातु पिशितं
विजानन्तोऽप्येते वयं इह वियज्जालजटिलान्
न मुञ्चामः कानां अहह गहनो मोहमहिमा
Source text: sa.wikisource.orgIn English · B. Hale Wortham, 1886A moth may fall into the flame of a candle through ignorance ; a fish may take a piece of meat fastened to a hook, not knowing what it is ; but we who know perfectly the many entanglements of fortune yet do not give up our desire. Ah ! in what a thicket of error do we wander !
Source text: archive.orgAnother translation · Two Centuries of Bhartrihari · C. H. Tawney, 1877The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait. Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
Source text: archive.orgTolstoy’s own version · Путь жизниНочная бабочка летит на огонь, потому что не знает того, что обожжет крылья; и рыба глотает червяка на удочке, потому что не знает того, что это губит ее.
Source text: tolstoy.ruDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Vairāgya-śataka, v. 18 (Wikisource numbering, 3.18); v. 21 in Wortham.
A verse of Bhartrihari's Vairagya-shataka, kept close to the Sanskrit: 'Not knowing its burning, the moth falls into the fierce flame; the fish too, from ignorance, eats the flesh on the hook; we, though we know, do not let go of desires entangled in a net of calamities: alas, how deep is the power of delusion!' Tolstoy's «опутаны сетью бедствий» (entangled in a net of calamities) renders vipaj-jāla, which Wortham makes 'the many entanglements of fortune' and Tawney 'the meshes of desire'; so neither saved English was his source, and through which translation he read it was not found. He makes the desires «чувственные наслаждения» (sensual pleasures), the bait a worm, and the close «Такова бездонная глубина безрассудства» (such is the bottomless depth of folly). The Wikisource text has two misprints, «वियज्जाल» for «विपज्जाल» and «कानां» for «कामान्». Not a proverb: the verse is Bhartrihari's, in both saved translations. Tolstoy used it again, unsigned and turned against lust, in The Path of Life.