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nara-puṅgavaḥ

  • best of men
  • one who lazily follows one’s lower nature
  • the king
  • kings of human society

Also appears as nara-adhamāḥ, nara-adhipam, nara-loka-vīrāḥ, nara-adhamān

In 5 verses

Chapter 1 5 of 18 chapters Chapter 18
  1. 1.5

    धृष्टकेतुश्चेकितानः काशिराजश्च वीर्यवान्

    nara-puṅgavaḥ — best of men

    Dhrishtaketu, Chekitana, the valiant king of Kashi, Purujit, Kuntibhoja, and Shaibya, the best of men; Yudhamanyu the courageous, and Uttamauja the strong;

  2. 7.15

    न मां दुष्कृतिनो मूढाः प्रपद्यन्ते नराधमाः

    nara-adhamāḥ — one who lazily follows one’s lower nature

    Those who do harm do not come to me — the deluded, the lowest of people, whose knowledge is carried off by appearance, who have taken the side of what destroys.

  3. 10.27

    उच्चैःश्रवसमश्वानां विद्धि माममृतोद्भवम्

    narāṇām — amongst humans

    Among horses know me as the one born of the churning of nectar; among elephants, Airavata; and among men, the king.

  4. 11.28

    यथा नदीनां बहवोऽम्बुवेगाः समुद्रमेवाभिमुखाः द्रवन्ति

    nara-loka-vīrāḥ — kings of human society

    As the many currents of rivers run toward the sea, so these heroes of the world of men enter your blazing mouths.

  5. 16.19

    तानहं द्विषतः क्रूरान्संसारेषु नराधमान्

    nara-adhamān — the vile and vicious of humankind

    These hateful and cruel ones, the lowest of people, I cast again and again into wombs of the same nature, in the round of birth.