Shloka 24

Devanagari script

कच्चिन्न कृतकैर्दूतैयें चाप्पपरिशड्किता: । त्वत्तो वा तव चामात्यैभियथ्यते मन्त्रितं तथा,जिनपर तुम्हें संदेह नहीं होता, ऐसे शत्रुके गुप्तचर कृत्रिम मित्र बनकर तुम्हारे मन्त्रियोंद्वारा तुम्हारी गुप्त मन्त्रणाको जानकर उसे प्रकाशित तो नहीं कर देते?

Transliteration

kaccin na kṛtakair dūtaiḥ ye cāpy apariśaṅkitāḥ | tvatto vā tava cāmātyair bhidyate mantritaṃ tathā ||

Translation

নাৰদে ক’লে—তুমি কি সাৱধান থাকো, যাতে শত্ৰুৰ গুপ্তচৰসকলে কৃত্ৰিম বন্ধু সেজি—যাৰ ওপৰত সন্দেহ নাহে—তোমাৰ বা তোমাৰ মন্ত্ৰীসকলৰ জৰিয়তে গোপনে কৰা পৰামৰ্শ যিদৰে হৈছিল সিদৰে জানি লৈ পাছত তাক ফাঁস নকৰে?

Word by Word

कच्चित्whether (indeed)?

नnot

कृतकैःby artificial/feigned (ones)

दूतैःby messengers/agents

चand

अप्परिशङ्किताःunsuspected / not suspected

त्वत्तःfrom you

वाor

तवof you/your

चand

अमात्यैःby ministers/counsellors

विहीयतेis abandoned/neglected

मन्त्रितम्counsel/secret deliberation

तथाthus/in that manner

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nārada

amātya (ministers)

dūta (agents/spies)

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?

A king must protect the confidentiality of counsel: secrecy is a moral and practical duty of governance, and it can be compromised not only by enemies but also through careless trust and weak ministerial discipline.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada continues his series of probing questions to the ruler, testing whether the kingdom is well-governed; here he asks whether disguised enemy agents, posing as friends, are able to penetrate the royal council and leak deliberations.