कथं मतिस्तेऽवगतान्यथा सतां कुलप्रसूते कुलदूषणं त्विदम् । बिभर्षि जारं यदपत्रपा कुलं पितुश्च भर्तुश्च नयस्यधस्तम: ॥ २१ ॥
katham matis te ’vagatanyatha satam kula-prasute kula-dusanam tv idam bibharsi jaram yad apatrapa kulam pitus ca bhartus ca nayasy adhas tamah
- katham
- how
- matih te
- your consciousness
- avagata
- has gone down
- anyatha
- otherwise
- satam
- of the most respectable
- kula-prasute
- O my daughter, born in the family
- kula-dusanam
- who are the degradation of the family
- tu
- but
- idam
- this
- bibharsi
- you are maintaining
- jaram
- a paramour
- yat
- as it is
- apatrapa
- without shame
- kulam
- the dynasty
- pituh
- of your father
- ca
- and
- bhartuh
- of your husband
- ca
- and
- nayasi
- you are bringing down
- adhah tamah
- downward into darkness or hell
O my daughter, who were born in a respectable family, how have you degraded your consciousness in this way? How is it that you are shamelessly maintaining a paramour? You will thus degrade the dynasties of both your father and your husband to hellish life.