Shloka 8

Devanagari script

नाधर्म: कारणापेक्षी कर्तारमभिमुज्चति । कर्ता खलु यथाकालं तत: समभिपद्यते,अधर्म फल प्रदानके अवसरकी प्रतीक्षा करनेवाला है, अतः: वह कर्ताका पीछा नहीं छोड़ता। समय आनेपर उस कर्ताको उस पापका फल अवश्य भोगना पड़ता है

Transliteration

nādharmo kāraṇāpekṣī kartāram abhimuñcati | kartā khalu yathākālaṃ tataḥ samabhipadyate ||

Translation

«الأدهرما لا يحتاج إلى مناسبةٍ عاجلة ليُثمر؛ فهو لا يترك فاعله. فإذا جاء أوانُه، لقي الفاعلُ نفسه عاقبةَ ذلك الإثم ولا بدّ أن يذوقها.»

Word by Word

नnot

अधर्मःunrighteousness, sin

कारणापेक्षीdependent on a cause/occasion; waiting for an opportunity

कर्तारम्the doer (agent)

अभिमुञ्चतिreleases, lets go of

कर्ताthe doer

खलुindeed, surely

यथाकालम्in due time, at the proper time

ततःthen, thereafter; from that

समभिपद्यतेbefalls, comes upon, reaches (him)

Speaker

पराशर उवाच

Characters & Entities

प

पराशर (Parāśara)

क

कर्ता (the doer/agent)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Adharma clings to its agent and yields its result inevitably; even if the consequence is delayed, time ripens the fruit of wrongdoing, and the doer must face it.

What is happening in the narrative?

Parāśara is instructing the listener in Shānti Parva on ethical causality: wrongful acts are not nullified by delay or lack of immediate punishment; the moral result follows the perpetrator until the right time for fruition.