Shloka 129

Devanagari script

नारद उवाच एवं यो वर्तते राजा चातुर्वर्ण्यस्य रक्षणे । स विहृत्येह सुसुखी शक्रस्यैति सलोकताम्‌,नारदजीने कहा--जो राजा इस प्रकार चारों वर्णों (और वर्णाश्रमधर्म)-की रक्षामें संलग्न रहता है, वह इस लोकमें अत्यन्त सुखपूर्वक विहार करके अन्तमें देवराज इन्द्रके लोकमें जाता है

Transliteration

nārada uvāca evaṁ yo vartate rājā cāturvarṇyasya rakṣaṇe | sa vihṛtyeha susukhī śakrasya eti salokatām ||

Translation

নাৰদে ক’লে—যি ৰজা এইদৰে চাতুৰ্বৰ্ণ্য আৰু বৰ্ণাশ্ৰমধৰ্মৰ ৰক্ষাত অচল থাকে, সি এই লোকত মহাসুখে বিচৰণ কৰি শেষত শক্ৰ (ইন্দ্ৰ)ৰ লোকলৈ গমন কৰে।

Word by Word

नारदःNarada

उवाचsaid

एवम्thus

यःwho

वर्ततेconducts himself / behaves

राजाking

चातुर्वर्ण्यस्यof the fourfold social order (four varnas)

रक्षणेin (the act of) protection

सःhe

विहृत्यhaving enjoyed / having sported

इहhere (in this world)

सुसुखीvery happy

शक्रस्यof Shakra (Indra)

एतिgoes / attains

स-लोकताम्the state of being in the same world (as him)

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nārada

rājā (the king)

cāturvarṇya (four varṇas)

Śakra/Indra

Śakra-loka (Indra's world)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A ruler’s primary ethical duty is to safeguard dharma—here framed as protecting the cāturvarṇya and varṇa-āśrama duties. Such righteous governance yields both worldly well-being and a meritorious posthumous destiny (attainment of Indra’s realm).

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada is describing the फल (result) of ideal royal conduct: a king who actively maintains social and religious order lives happily in this world and, upon death, reaches Śakra’s heavenly world.