Words Well Worth 15: Half Done Is Whole Headache Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Debt long unsettled, undampened fire,
Unfinished foe fuelling hate so dire,
Proving perpetual pain
They'd swell time and again,
Leave notso hanging that might long ire.
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The transliteration of the subhāśhita is given below:

rūņa-sheśhah cha agni-sheśhahshatru-sheśhah tathā eva cha |
punah punah pravartantetasmāt sheśham na rakśhayet ||

rūņa-sheśhah: left-over debt, balance of unsettled debt; cha: and; agni-sheśhah: left-over fire, the fire not fully extinguished; shatru-sheśhah: foe not finished off; tathā eva cha: and in the same way indeed; punah punah: time and again; pravartante: prevail, recur, flare up; tasmāt: therefore, hence; sheśham: balance, things left out, not fully completed; na rakśhayet: should never be left/preserved.

This verse is from Mahabharata.

Topic: foe, fire, debt, work