यदा तु परत आहारं कर्मवेतनत ईहमान: स्वभ्रातृभिरपि केदारकर्मणि निरूपितस्तदपि करोति किन्तु न समं विषमं न्यूनमधिकमिति वेद कणपिण्याकफलीकरणकुल्माषस्थालीपुरीषादीन्यप्यमृतवदभ्यवहरति ॥ ११ ॥
yada tu parata aharam karma-vetanata ihamanah sva-bhratrbhir api kedara-karmani nirupitas tad api karoti kintu na samam visamam nyunam adhikam iti veda kana-pinyaka-phali-karana-kulmasa-sthalipurisadiny apy amrtavad abhyavaharati.
- yada
- when
- tu
- but
- paratah
- from others
- aharam
- food
- karma-vetanatah
- in exchange for wages from working
- ihamanah
- looking for
- sva-bhratrbhih api
- even by his own stepbrothers
- kedara-karmani
- in working in the field and adjusting the agricultural work
- nirupitah
- engaged
- tat api
- at that time also
- karoti
- he used to do
- kintu
- but
- na
- not
- samam
- level
- visamam
- uneven
- nyunam
- deficient
- adhikam
- more raised
- iti
- thus
- veda
- he knew
- kana
- broken rice
- pinyaka
- oil cakes
- phali-karana
- the chaff of rice
- kulmasa
- worm-eaten grains
- sthali-purisa-adini
- burned rice stuck to the pot and so on
- api
- even
- amrta-vat
- like nectar
- abhyavaharati
- used to eat
Jada Bharata used to work only for food. His stepbrothers took advantage of this and engaged him in agricultural field work in exchange for some food, but actually he did not know how to work very well in the field. He did not know where to spread dirt or where to make the ground level or uneven. His brothers used to give him broken rice, oil cakes, the chaff of rice, worm-eaten grains and burned grains that had stuck to the pot, but he gladly accepted all this as if it were nectar. He did not hold any grudges and ate all this very gladly.