Shloka 12

Adhyāya 125: Raṅga-pradarśana — Arjuna’s Entry and Astric Demonstration (रङ्गप्रदर्शनम्)

Devanagari script

स तया सह संगम्य भार्यया कुरुनन्दन: । पाण्डु: परमधर्मात्मा युयुजे कालधर्मणा,कुरुकुलको आनन्दित करनेवाले परम धर्मात्मा महाराज पाण्डु इस प्रकार अपनी धर्मपत्नी माद्रीसे समागम करके कालके गालमें पड़ गये

Transliteration

sa tayā saha saṅgamya bhāryayā kurunandanaḥ | pāṇḍuḥ paramadharmātmā yuyuje kāladharmaṇā ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: Nachdem er sich mit seiner Gemahlin vereinigt hatte, wurde Pāṇḍu—Wonne der Kuru, dem Dharma aufs Höchste ergeben—nach dem Gesetz der Zeit dem Tod verbunden.

Word by Word

सःhe

तयाwith her / by her

सहtogether with

संगम्यhaving met / having had union

भार्ययाwith (his) wife

कुरुनन्दनःdelighter of the Kurus (epithet)

पाण्डुःPāṇḍu

परमधर्मात्माof supremely righteous nature

युयुजेbecame joined / was subjected (to)

कालधर्मणाby the law of Time (fate/death)

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

Pāṇḍu

Mādrī

Kuru (dynasty/people)

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the supremacy of Kāla (Time) and the inevitability of mortality: even a king described as paramadharmātmā is subject to Time’s ordinance, and actions occur within a moral-causal order whose results ripen inexorably.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśaṃpāyana reports that King Pāṇḍu, after uniting with his wife (contextually, Mādrī), is overtaken by death—expressed as being ‘joined’ to the law of Time—marking a decisive turn in the lineage narrative leading to the Pāṇḍavas’ upbringing without their father.