Shloka 4
कुरुसभायां केशवागमन-सत्कारविधानम् / Preparations to Honor Keśava at the Kuru Court
Devanagari script
वैशम्पायन उवाच तस्य प्रयाणे यान्यासन् निमित्तानि महात्मन: । तानि मे शृणु सर्वाणि दैवान्यौत्पातिकानि च,वैशम्पायनजीने कहा--राजन! महात्मा श्रीकृष्णके प्रस्थान करते समय जो दिव्य शकुन और उत्पातसूचक अपशकुन प्रकट हुए थे, मुझसे उन सबका वर्णन सुनो
Transliteration
vaiśampāyana uvāca | tasya prayāṇe yāny āsan nimittāni mahātmanaḥ | tāni me śṛṇu sarvāṇi daivāny autpātikāni ca ||
Translation
قال فَيْشَمْبَايَنَة: «أيها الملك، حين همَّ ذلك العظيمُ الروح (شري كريشنا) بالمسير، ظهرت نُذُرٌ شتّى—منها ما هو مُبشِّرٌ صادرٌ عن الآلهة، ومنها ما هو مُنذِرٌ بالكارثة—فاسمع مني بيانَها كلَّها بيانًا تامًّا».
Word by Word
{'vaiśampāyana uvāca''Vaiśampāyana said', 'tasya': 'of him
{'vaiśampāyana uvāca':
his', 'prayāṇe''at the departure
his', 'prayāṇe':
on setting out', 'yāni''which
on setting out', 'yāni':
whatever (neuter plural)', 'āsan''were
whatever (neuter plural)', 'āsan':
occurred', 'nimittāni''omens
occurred', 'nimittāni':
indications', 'mahātmanaḥ''of the great-souled one (honorific epithet)', 'tāni': 'those', 'me': 'from me
indications', 'mahātmanaḥ':
to me (contextually‘from me, hear’)', 'śṛṇu': 'hear
to me (contextually:
listen', 'sarvāṇi''all (of them)', 'daivāni': 'divine
listen', 'sarvāṇi':
of heavenly origin (often auspicious or fated)', 'autpātikāni''portentous
of heavenly origin (often auspicious or fated)', 'autpātikāni':
arising from utpāta (prodigies/inauspicious phenomena)', 'ca''and'}
arising from utpāta (prodigies/inauspicious phenomena)', 'ca':
Speaker
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Characters & Entities
V
VaiśampāyanaK
King (rājan, the listener)T
the great-souled one (mahātmā; contextually Śrī Kṛṣṇa in this passage’s framing)Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)
Geographic Context