Shloka 28

Devanagari script

अस्माकं हि वनस्थानां हैडिम्बेन महात्मना

Transliteration

asmākaṃ hi vanasthānāṃ haiḍimben mahātmanā

Translation

قال سانجيا: «أما نحن، إذ كنا يومئذٍ نعيش في الغابة، فبفضل هايديمبا العظيمِ النفس…».

Word by Word

• अस्माकम्: of us / our
• अस्माकम्: सम्बन्ध (Genitive relation)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, षष्ठी, बहुवचन

• हि: indeed / for
• हि: —
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• वनस्थानाम्: of (those) dwelling in the forest
• वनस्थानाम्: सम्बन्ध (Genitive relation)
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: वनस्थ
• Form: पुं, षष्ठी, बहुवचन

• हैडिम्बेन: by/with (the one) named Haiḍimba
• हैडिम्बेन: करण
• Type: Noun/Adjective (proper/epithet)
• Root: हैडिम्ब
• Form: पुं, तृतीया, एकवचन

• महात्मना: by the great-souled (one)
• महात्मना: करण
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: महात्मन्
• Form: पुं, तृतीया, एकवचन

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Haiḍimba

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse cues an ethical emphasis on remembering and acknowledging help received in times of hardship—gratitude and reciprocity are presented as dharmic virtues that remain relevant even when the narrative has shifted to the battlefield.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya begins a statement recalling an earlier period when “we” were living in the forest, introducing Haiḍimba as a great-souled agent through whom something significant was done for them; the sentence is incomplete here and continues in the next verse(s).