Words Well Worth 29: People Bow To Rising Sun Poem by Aniruddha Pathak

Wind hails a helping hand
To raging, flaring fire in forest,
The same wind kills a candle in haste,
No'ne's weak-and-meek's friend,
People bow to sun rising to crest.
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Transliteration of the subhāśhita along with the meanings of Sanskrit words is given as under:

vanāni vahatah vahneh sakhā bhavati mārutah |
sah eva dīpa-nāshāya kŗshe kasya asti sauhŗdam ||


vanāni: in the forest/wood, in the wild; vahatah: raging, burning, blowing; vahneh: to the fire; sakhā: a friend, friendly, well wisher; bhavati: becomes; mārutah: the wind; sah eva:the very him, he only; dīpa-nāshāya: (works/conspires)to extinguish a lamp; kŗshe: to the weak and powerless, feeble; kasya asti: where is, who be; sauhŗdam: compassion, feelings of friendship, soft corner.

Topic: friend, weak, meek