shattered by the words of scandal mongers who carry tales

 

मृदुना सलिलेन खन्यमानान्यवघृष्यन्ति गिरेरपि स्थलानि।

उपजापविदां च कर्णजापैः किमु चेतांसि मृदूनि मानवानाम्॥

इन्दिश्चे स्प्रूचे २२४८ पञ्चतन्त्रे

mṛdunā salilena khanyamānānyavaghṛṣyanti girerapi sthalāni|

upajāpavidāṁ ca karṇajāpaiḥ kimu cetāṁsi mṛdūni mānavānām||

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The water flowing down the mountain in small streams are thin and soft by their very nature. However, when the waters flow down constantly, the flanks of the mountain, the valleys just below which are very hard, and tough the water erodes and even sweep them away many a time.

This is a ubiquitous phenomenon.

Similarly is there hardly anything to wonder or feel intrigued when we find the soft and credulous minds of human beings getting poisoned and polluted, eroded and even shattered by the words of scandal mongers who carry tales, the words that are tough mreiy couched in apparent geniality, words that are persuasive and convincing although carrying falsehood and prejudice alone.

Even soft and persistent water can erode the tough mountain. Why should it not be possible for the hard-hearted evil scandalmonger, to pollute the gullible mind of an ordinary human being?

K V ANANTHANARAYANAN

मृदुना by very soft, of liquid nature सलिलेन water खन्यमानानि being run over, eroded constantly गिरेः of the mountain स्थलानि areas surrounding, adjoining to अपि too अवघृष्यन्ति gets depleted, forcibly swept away

किमु why not उपजापविदां experts in carrying tales, scandal mongers कर्णजापैः constant and repeated litany and speech very near the ear मानवानां of men मृदूनि soft चेतांसि mind च अवघृष्यन्ति ? too get carried away, get eroded for the worse too?