Shloka 25

Jaratkāru’s Marital Compact and Departure (जरत्कारु–जरत्कारुणी संवादः)

Devanagari script

सौतिरु्वाच ते तक्षकसमादिष्टास्तथा चक्रुर्भुजज्रमा:,उग्रश्रवाजी कहते हैं--तक्षकके आदेश देनेपर उन नागोंने वैसा ही किया

Transliteration

Sautir uvāca—te Takṣakasamādiṣṭās tathā cakrur bhujagāḥ.

Translation

Sauti (Ugraśravas) sprach: Jene Schlangenwesen, von Takṣaka befohlen, taten genau, wie er es angeordnet hatte.

Word by Word

• सूतिः: Sauti (Ugraśravas), the narrator
• सूतिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सूति
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उवाच: said
• उवाच: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: Perfect, Third, Singular

• ते: they
• ते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• तक्षक-समादिष्टाः: commanded by Takṣaka
• तक्षक-समादिष्टाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सम्-आ-दिश् (समादिष्ट) / तक्षक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• तथा: thus, in that manner
• तथा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• चक्रुः: did
• चक्रुः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ
• Form: Perfect, Third, Plural

• भुजङ्गमाः: serpents (Nāgas)
• भुजङ्गमाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भुजङ्गम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

तक्षक उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Ugraśravas (Sauti)
• Takṣaka
• Nāgas (serpents)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights obedience to a leader’s command; ethically, it invites reflection on whether loyalty and compliance absolve agents from responsibility for the outcomes of what they carry out.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Sauti reports that the Nāgas, upon receiving Takṣaka’s instruction, immediately executed it as ordered, moving the story forward from command to action.