Shloka 2736

Devanagari script

ब्रह्महत्या फलं तस्य यै: कृतं नावबुध्यते । “महाबाहो! मुझे धर्मकी श्रेष्ठ गति विदित है। जो मनुष्य किसीके किये हुए उपकारको याद नहीं रखता, उसे ब्रह्महत्याका पाप लगता है

Transliteration

brahmahatyā phalaṁ tasya yaiḥ kṛtaṁ nāvabudhyate | mahābāho! mām̐ dharmasya śreṣṭhā gatiḥ viditā | yo manuṣyaḥ kasyacit kṛtam upakāraṁ na smarati, tasya brahmahatyā-pāpaṁ lagati |

Translation

সঞ্জয়ে ক’লে—যি মানুহে নিজৰ প্ৰতি কৰা উপকাৰ চিনিব নোৱাৰে বা সোঁৱৰণ নকৰে, তাৰ ওপৰত ব্রহ্মহত্যাৰ ফল পৰে। মহাবাহো! ধৰ্মৰ শ্ৰেষ্ঠ গতি মোৰ বিদিত—যি জনে আনৰ উপকাৰ মনত নাৰাখে, সি ব্রহ্মহত্যাৰ পাপে লিপ্ত হয়।

Word by Word

ब्रह्महत्याthe sin of brahma-slaying (brahmahatyā)

फलम्fruit, result

तस्यof him/that (of that person)

यैःby whom/with which (by those who)

कृतम्done, performed

नnot

अवबुध्यतेis understood/recognized

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

mahābāho (addressee, unspecified in the given excerpt)

brahmahatyā (sin as a concept)

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 equates ingratitude—failing to acknowledge and remember a benefaction—with a grave moral fault, stating that such denial of received good accrues the heavy sin symbolized by brahmahatyā. It frames gratitude as a key marker of the ‘highest course of dharma’.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya delivers a moral reflection within the war narrative, addressing a heroic listener (“mahābāho”) and emphasizing ethical conduct—specifically, the duty to recognize and remember help received—by warning of severe karmic consequence for ingratitude.