Mahabharata 9.64.26 — Shalya Parva, Adhyaya 64, Shloka 26

Devanagari script

दिष्ट्या नाहं परावृत्तो वैरात्‌ प्राकृतवज्जित:

Transliteration

diṣṭyā nāhaṃ parāvṛtto vairāt prākṛtavajjitaḥ

Translation

সঞ্জয়ে ক’লে: “দৈৱকৃপাৰে মই বৈৰবশত পিছুৱাই যোৱা নাই; নীচ, সাধাৰণ লোকৰ দৰে আচৰণো কৰা নাই।”

Word by Word

• दिष्ट्या: fortunately / by good luck
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: दिष्टि
• Form: Avyaya (instrumental sense: 'by good fortune')

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न
• Form: Negation particle

• अहम्: I
• अहम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अहम्
• Form: Pronoun; masculine/feminine; nominative; singular

• परावृत्तः: turned back / retreated
• Type: Adjective
• Root: परावृत्त
• Form: Masculine; nominative; singular; past passive participle (क्त) from √वृत् with परा-

• वैरात्: from enmity / from hostility
• वैरात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वैर
• Form: Neuter; ablative; singular

• प्राकृतवत्: like a common/ordinary person
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: प्राकृतवत्
• Form: Avyaya (vat-pratyaya: 'like/as')

• जितः: conquered / overcome
• Type: Adjective
• Root: जित
• Form: Masculine; nominative; singular; past passive participle (क्त) from √जि

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• संजय (Sañjaya)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even amid hostility, one should not be driven by vaira (enmity) into rash retreat or ignoble behavior; ethical steadiness and self-mastery are praised as a form of victory.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports a moment of reflection in the war narrative, emphasizing that he (as speaker) has not acted from spite or fallen into crude conduct, framing the ongoing conflict in terms of personal restraint and propriety.