Shloka 48

Droṇa’s Conditional Boon: The Plan to Capture Yudhiṣṭhira (द्रोणेन युधिष्ठिरग्रहणोपायः)

Devanagari script

अनन्तमिदमैश्वर्य लोके प्राप्तो युधिष्ठिर:

Transliteration

anantam idam aiśvaryaṁ loke prāpto yudhiṣṭhiraḥ

Translation

قال فايشَمبايانا: «لقد نال يودهيشثيرا في هذا العالم مُلكًا لا حدّ له وبهاءً عظيمًا».

Word by Word

• अनन्तम्: endless, infinite
• अनन्तम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अनन्त
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• इदम्: this
• इदम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• ऐश्वर्यम्: sovereignty, lordship, power
• ऐश्वर्यम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: ऐश्वर्य
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• लोके: in the world
• लोके: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोक
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• प्राप्तः: having obtained, attained
• प्राप्तः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र-आप्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular, क्त (past passive participle)

• युधिष्ठिरः: Yudhishthira
• युधिष्ठिरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: युधिष्ठिर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Yudhiṣṭhira

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Worldly sovereignty can be vast and alluring, but in the Mahābhārata it is never morally neutral: immense power implies immense accountability, especially when acquired in the context of conflict.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśampāyana remarks that Yudhiṣṭhira has come to possess extraordinary worldly lordship—an observation that situates Yudhiṣṭhira’s status and the scale of his fortunes within the unfolding events of the war-centered Drona Parva.