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Chapter 6.4 - Verse 6

Sanskrit Text

हन्यात्स एव यो हन्यात्कुलधर्मं स्वकां तनुम् कालेनोत्पथगन्तासि शक्ये सति यथापथि

English Translation

The custom of a family brings about his own ruin who destroys it resembling his own body. For the destruction of this race as well as that of kings, it is (no doubt). Time that leads you to this wrong path although you are capable to withstand it. O king, in the shape of a kingdom, a great calamity has befallen you.

Padaccheda (Word Analysis)

हन्यात् | स | एव | यो | हन्यात् | कुल + धर्म | स्वकां | तनुम्
काल + उत्पथ + गन्तृ + अस् | शक्ये | सति | यथा + पथिन्