Udyoga Parva 37.2
Rahular Itihasa / M. N. Dutt · Udyoga Parva Chapter 37 · Verse 2
Sanskrit Original
यश्चाशिष्यं शास्ति वै यश्च तुष्येद् यश्चातिबेलं भजते द्विषन्तम्। स्त्रियश्च यो रक्षति भद्रमश्नुते यशायाच्यं याचते कत्थते वा ॥ यश्चाभिजातः प्रकरोत्यकार्य यश्चाबलो बलिना नित्यवैरी। अश्रद्दधानाय च यो ब्रवीति यश्चाकाम्यं कामयते नरेन्द्र॥ बध्वावहासं श्वशुरो मन्यते यो वध्वा वसन्नभयो मानकामः। परक्षेत्रे निर्वपति यश्चबीजं स्त्रियः च यः परिवदतेऽतिवेलम्॥ यश्चापि लब्ध्वा न स्मरामीति वादी दत्त्वा च यः कत्थि याच्यमानः। यश्चासतः सत्त्वमुपानयीत एतान् नयन्ति निरयं पाशहस्ताः॥
(The seventeen kinds of men are), he who seeks to control one incapable of being brought under control; he who is satisfied with trifling gains; he who serves his enemies; he who controls women; he who asks favours that ought not to be asked; he who boasts, having done very little good; he who, well born, does improper acts; he who through week is always struggling with one who is powerful; he who talks to one listening with disgust; he who desires what ought not to be desired, O chief among men; he who being a father-in-law cracks jokes with his daughter-in-law; he whose fears being dispelled by his daughter-inlaw desires to be respected; he who sows his own seeds in the ground of another; and he who speaks very ill of his wife; he who having obtained a favour from another says he does nor remember it; he who having promised something makes empty boats when asked to perform it; he who seeks to prove the honesty of a dishonest person, the servitors of Yoma drag these down to hell, with noose in hand.