Shloka 473

Samrāt-Lakṣaṇa and the Counsel to Check Jarāsandha (सम्राट्-लक्षणं जरासन्ध-प्रतिबाधा-परामर्शः)

Devanagari script

संस्मरन्तो विमनसो व्यपयाता नराधिप । तब हमलोग भी पहले की हुई गुप्त मन्त्रणाको स्मरण करके उदास हो गये। महाराज! फिर तो हम मथुरासे भाग खड़े हुए

Transliteration

saṃsmaranto vimanaso vyapayātā narādhipa | tataḥ vayaṃloka api pūrvakṛtāṃ guptamantraṇāṃ saṃsmṛtya udāsīnā abhavāma | mahārāja! tataḥ vayaṃ mathurāto palāyitvā gatāḥ |

Translation

হে নরাধিপ! সেসব স্মরণ করে আমরা বিমর্ষ হয়ে পিছিয়ে গেলাম। পূর্বে অনুষ্ঠিত গোপন পরামর্শ মনে পড়তেই আমরাও বিষণ্ণ হলাম; তারপর, মহারাজ, আমরা মথুরা থেকে পালিয়ে বেরিয়ে পড়লাম।

Word by Word

• संस्मरन्तः: remembering
• संस्मरन्तः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: संस्मृ (धातु) / संस्मरन्त् (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: शतृ (वर्तमान कृदन्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• विमनसः: dejected, dispirited
• विमनसः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विमनस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• व्यपयाताः: having departed, having gone away
• व्यपयाताः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + अप + या (धातु) / व्यपयात (कृदन्त-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: क्त (भूतकर्मणि/भूतकृदन्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• नराधिप: O king (lord of men)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नराधिप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन, एकवचन

Speaker

श्रीकृष्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Kṛṣṇa
• narādhipa (the king addressed)
• Mathurā
• gupta-mantraṇā (secret counsel)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The passage highlights prudent restraint: when prior secret deliberations reveal looming danger or moral compromise, a dharmic response may be to withdraw rather than escalate harm. Dejection here is not weakness but sober recognition of consequences, leading to a strategic and ethically cautious departure.

What is happening in the narrative?

Śrī Kṛṣṇa addresses a king, saying that remembering an earlier confidential consultation made them despondent; afterward they left—fleeing from Mathurā—indicating a deliberate retreat prompted by the implications of that prior counsel.