Shloka 19

युधिष्ठिरकृष्णसंवादः — Yudhiṣṭhira’s Appeal and Kṛṣṇa’s Assurance

Droṇa-parva, Adhyāya 59

Devanagari script

सहस़पुत्रा: पुरुषा दशवर्षशतायुष:

Transliteration

sahasraputrāḥ puruṣā daśavarṣaśatāyuṣaḥ

Translation

নাৰদে ক’লে—কিছুমান পুৰুষ আছে যাঁহঁতৰ সহস্ৰ পুত্ৰ থাকে, আৰু যাঁহঁতৰ আয়ু শত দশক পৰ্যন্ত, অৰ্থাৎ সহস্ৰ বছৰলৈকে বিস্তাৰিত হয়।

Word by Word

• सहस्रपुत्राः: having a thousand sons
• सहस्रपुत्राः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सहस्रपुत्र
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• पुरुषाः: men
• पुरुषाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुरुष
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• दशवर्षशतायुषः: having a lifespan of a thousand years (ten hundred years)
• दशवर्षशतायुषः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दशवर्षशतायुस्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Nārada

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights extreme worldly success—many sons and vast longevity—inviting reflection on the Mahābhārata’s ethical concern: prosperity is not itself the highest good unless guided by dharma and right conduct.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada is speaking and makes a general statement about certain men possessing extraordinary progeny and lifespan, functioning as a rhetorical setup for a broader moral or illustrative point in the surrounding passage.