SB 3.17.11

TEXT 11

TEXT

खराश्च कर्कशैः क्षत्तः खुरैर्घ्नन्तो धरातलम् ।
खार्काररभसा मत्ताः पर्यधावन्वरूथशः ॥ ११ ॥

kharas ca karkasaih ksattah

khurair ghnanto dhara-talam

kharkara-rabhasa mattah

paryadhavan varuthasah

kharah-asses; ca-and; karkasaih-hard; ksattah-O Vidura; khuraih-with their hoofs; ghnantah-striking; dhara-talam-the surface of the earth; khar-kara-braying; rabhasah-wildly engaged in; mattah-mad; paryadhavan-ran hither and thither; varuthasah-in herds.

TRANSLATION

O Vidura, the asses ran hither and thither in herds, striking the earth with their hard hoofs and wildly braying.

PURPORT

Asses also feel very respectable as a race, and when they run in flocks hither and thither in so-called jollity, it is understood to be a bad sign for human society.

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