Shloka 55

Devanagari script

न चेदेवं प्राप्तकालं वचो मे मोहाविष्ट: प्रतिपत्स्यस्यबुद्धया । तप्स्यस्यन्ते एतदन्ता: स्थ सर्वे सत्यामेतां भारतीमीरयामि

Transliteration

na ced evaṃ prāptakālaṃ vaco me mohāviṣṭaḥ pratipatsyasi buddhyā | tapsyasy ante etad-antāḥ stha sarve satyām etāṃ bhāratīm īrayāmi |

Translation

قال سانجيا: «إنْ كنتَ مخدوعًا بالوهم فلم تقبل بنفاذ بصيرةٍ نصيحتي هذه في وقتها، فستحترق في النهاية بندمٍ مُرّ. إنكم جميعًا تقفون على شفير الهلاك—فهذه الحرب ستكون نهايتكم. أقول لك هذا بوصفه الحقيقة الصريحة.»

Word by Word

• {'na cet': 'if not

• if you do not', 'evam': 'thus

• in this manner', 'prāptakālam': 'timely

• appropriate to the moment', 'vacaḥ': 'speech

• words', 'me': 'my', 'mohāviṣṭaḥ': 'overcome by delusion

• bewildered', 'pratipatsyasi': 'you will accept/understand

• you will follow', 'buddhyā': 'with understanding

• with discernment', 'tapsyasi': 'you will suffer

• you will burn (with grief/remorse)', 'ante': 'at the end

• finally', 'etad-antāḥ': 'having this as the end

• ending in this (destruction)', 'stha': 'you are

• you stand (2nd pl. of √sthā)', 'sarve': 'all (of you)', 'satyām': 'truthfully

• in truth', 'bhāratīm': 'speech

• utterance (also: relating to the Bhāratas)', 'īrayāmi': 'I utter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Duryodhana

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Timely, truthful counsel should be received with discernment; delusion (moha) that rejects wise advice leads to inevitable ruin and later remorse.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya delivers a grave warning to Duryodhana: if he refuses this moment-appropriate advice due to delusion, the Kauravas will meet destruction in the war and regret it at the end.