पितुस्सनित्यसन्तुष्टो नातिचक्राम चाश्रमात्।।1.10.8।। न तेन जन्मप्रभृति दृष्टपूर्वं तपस्विना। स्त्री वा पुमान्वा यच्चान्यत्सर्वं नगरराष्ट्रजम्।। 1.10.9।।
Meaning
Always content, he never strayed from his father's hermitage; absorbed in penance, he had never from birth seen a woman, a man, or anything else born of towns or kingdoms.
Word-by-word (pada-artha)
Shloka 1.10.8
| Word | Devanagari | Meaning | Grammatical role |
|---|---|---|---|
| pituḥ | पितुः | of his father | Genitive singular |
| sa | स | he | Nominative singular |
| nitya-santuṣṭaḥ | नित्य-सन्तुष्टः | ever content | Nominative singular |
| na aticakrāma | न अतिचक्राम | did not go beyond | Verb (perfect, negated) |
| ca āśramāt | च आश्रमात् | from the hermitage | Ablative singular |
Shloka 1.10.9
| Word | Devanagari | Meaning | Grammatical role |
|---|---|---|---|
| na tena | न तेन | not by him | Instrumental singular |
| janma-prabhṣti | जन्म-प्रभ्ष्ति | from birth | Indeclinable/particle |
| dṛṣṭa-pūrvam | दृष्ट-पूर्वम् | seen before | Nominative singular |
| tapasvinā | तपस्विना | by the ascetic | Instrumental singular |
| strī vā | स्त्री वा | either woman | Nominative singular |
| pumān vā | पुमान् वा | or man | Nominative singular |
| yat ca anyat | यत् च अन्यत् | or whatever else | Nominative singular |
| sarvam | सर्वम् | all | Nominative singular |
| nagara-rāṣṭra-jam | नगर-राष्ट्र-जम् | born of city or country | Nominative singular |
Scholar commentary
Shloka 1.10.8
valmikiramayan.net Prose Commentary
Desiraju Hanumanta Rao's prose rendering with embedded explanatory notes
The source is explicit that Rishyasringa's total inexperience with the world was not accidental but a deliberate design: his father raised him this way to prepare him for 'some supreme ritual ideal' -- his innocence is the point of the story, not incidental color, since it is precisely this innocence that makes the courtesans' ruse necessary.
1 of 16 traditions have commentary on this shloka. Traditions without a verse-specific commentary here are omitted rather than filled in.
Shloka 1.10.9
valmikiramayan.net Prose Commentary
Desiraju Hanumanta Rao's prose rendering with embedded explanatory notes
(Part of the same aside as shloka 8 -- his father's deliberate isolation of him as preparation for ritual purpose. See the fuller note there.)
1 of 16 traditions have commentary on this shloka. Traditions without a verse-specific commentary here are omitted rather than filled in.
Reference: 1.10.8-9 · Bāla Kāṇḍa