Shloka 5

अरण्यवृत्ति-वैराग्योपदेशः | Forest Discipline and the Program of Non-Attachment

Devanagari script

जुद्वानोडग्निं यथाकालमुभौ कालावुपस्पृशन्‌ | कृश: परिमिताहारश्चर्मचीरजटाधर:

Transliteration

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | juhvāno 'gnim yathākālam ubhau kālāv upaspṛśan | kṛśaḥ parimitāhāraś carmacīrajāṭādharaḥ ||

Translation

قال يودهيشثيرا: «سأغتسل في الوقتين المقرّرين، وأقدّم قرابين النار المقدّسة (أغنيهوترا) في ساعتها. وأقتات بطعامٍ محدود حتى يَنحَلّ جسدي. أرتدي جلد الظبي وثياب اللحاء، وأحمل على رأسي خُصَلًا معقودةً متلبّدة (جاṭا)، متّخذًا سيرة الزهد المنضبطة.»

Word by Word

• जुह्वानः: offering (sacrificing)
• जुह्वानः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: हु (धातु) → जुह्वान (शतृ-प्रत्यय)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उदग्निम्: the sacred fire (for oblations)
• उदग्निम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: उदग्नि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• यथा: according to, as
• यथा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• कालम्: time
• कालम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: काल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• उभौ: both
• उभौ: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उभ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Dual

• कालौ: the two times (morning and evening)
• कालौ: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: काल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Dual

• उपस्पृशन्: performing ablution (touching water)
• उपस्पृशन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्पृश् (धातु) + उप- (उपसर्ग) → उपस्पृश् (शतृ-प्रत्यय)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• कृशः: emaciated, lean
• कृशः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कृश (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• परिमिताहारः: one whose food is measured/limited
• परिमिताहारः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: परिमित + आहार (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• चर्मचीरजटाधरः: wearer of skin, bark-garments, and matted hair
• चर्मचीरजटाधरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: चर्म + चीर + जटा + धर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Agni (sacred fire)
• Agnihotra (fire-ritual)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse emphasizes disciplined dharma through regulated daily rites (purification and agnihotra) and restraint (measured diet, ascetic attire), presenting self-control and ritual order as ethical means to inner purification.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira declares his intention to adopt an ascetic regimen: bathing at the two daily ritual times, maintaining the fire-offering at the proper hours, eating sparingly to become lean, and wearing the traditional marks of a renunciant (deer-skin, bark garments, and matted hair).