Shloka 107

Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)

Devanagari script

अथ पज्चदशो राजन गुणस्तत्रापर: स्मृत: । पृथक्कलासमूहस्य सामग्र्यं तदिहोच्यते

Transliteration

atha pañcadaśo rājan guṇas tatrāparaḥ smṛtaḥ | pṛthakkalāsamūhasya sāmagrīyaṃ tad ihocyate ||

Translation

قال بهيشما: «والآن، أيها الملك، تُعَدُّ هناك خصلةٌ خامسةَ عشرة أيضًا. وهي تُوصَف هنا بأنها تمامُ الكمال وحُسنُ التآلف في مجموعةٍ من الفنون والمهارات المتمايزة، حتى تجتمع الكفاءات المتفرقة في كلٍّ واحدٍ منسجم.»

Word by Word

अथthen/now

पञ्चदशःfifteenth

राजन्O king

गुणःquality/attribute

तत्रthere/in that context

अपरःanother/further

स्मृतःis said/remembered/considered

पृथक्separately/distinctly

कलासमूहस्यof the collection of parts/sections

सामग्र्यम्completeness/totality

तत्that

इहhere/in this context

उच्यतेis said/is stated

Speaker

भीष्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

King (addressed as rājan)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches that beyond possessing many separate skills, a higher virtue is their sāmagrī—completeness and coordinated integration—so that diverse arts function together effectively and responsibly.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma continues a structured enumeration of qualities (guṇas) while instructing the king, introducing an additional item: the integrated sufficiency of a set of distinct arts and competencies.