A poor and helpless man is lamenting

क्षुत् तृट् आशा कुटुंबिन्यः मयि जीवन्ति न चान्यगाः।

तासां आशा महसाध्वी कदाचित् मां न मुञ्चति॥

kṣut tṛṭ āśā kuṭuṁbinyaḥ mayi jīvati na cānyagāḥ|

tāsāṁ āśā mahasādhvī kadācit māṁ na muñcati||

A poor and helpless man is lamenting

( In this satirical Subhashitam)

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I have three wives.. all well born.They are are very chaste and faithful. They will never think of anyone else other than me

They are hunger, thirst and desire for more and more possessions..

Even among these three desire or avarice is the most faithful, she would never leave me..

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Of course hunger and thirst would never leave us.. But it is a tragic truth that when food or water is scarce, and resources are scant, we get hungrier and thirstier, perhaps because of the anxiety..

And avarice to have more and more.. that is the most faithful part of the psyche of anyone and if he is not having even meagre resources, his desire to have something and to feel desperate about others having something increases sky high..

analysis

क्षुत् hunger

तृट् thirst

आशा desire

कुटुंबिन्यः ladies of noble family

भवन्ति are

ताः all the three of them

मयि in me, with me

जीवन्ति live faithfully

ते they

न चान्यगाः will not go away to anyone else (leaving me )

तासां even among them

आशा desire

महसाध्वी भवति is supremely chaste and faithful

सा she

कदाचित् even once

मां me

न मुञ्चति॥ does not abandon, does not leave..