Shloka 13

कुरुवंशप्रश्नः—दुःषन्तस्य राजधर्मवर्णनम्

Kuru Lineage Inquiry and the Portrait of King Duḥṣanta’s Rule

Devanagari script

महर्षे: सर्वलोकेषु पूजितस्य महात्मन: । प्रवक्ष्यामि मतं कृत्स्नं व्यासस्थामिततेजस:,सर्वलोकपूजित अमित तेजस्वी महामना महर्षि व्यासजीके सम्पूर्ण मतका यहाँ वर्णन करूँगा

Transliteration

Vaiśampāyana uvāca: maharṣeḥ sarvalokeṣu pūjitasya mahātmanaḥ | pravakṣyāmi mataṁ kṛtsnaṁ vyāsasthāmita-tejasaḥ ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „Nun werde ich in voller Gänze die wohlbedachte Ansicht des großen Weisen Vyāsa darlegen—hochgesinnt, in allen Welten verehrt und von unverminderter geistiger Strahlkraft.“

Word by Word

• {'Vaiśampāyana uvāca': 'Vaiśampāyana said', 'maharṣeḥ': 'of the great seer (mahā-ṛṣi)', 'sarvalokeṣu': 'in all worlds

• everywhere', 'pūjitasya': 'honoured, revered', 'mahātmanaḥ': 'of the great-souled one', 'pravakṣyāmi': 'I will declare, I will explain', 'matam': 'opinion, considered view, doctrine', 'kṛtsnam': 'entire, complete', 'Vyāsa': 'the sage Vyāsa (Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana)', 'asthāmita-tejasaḥ': 'whose radiance has not set

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Vyāsa (Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse establishes ethical and textual authority: a teaching gains weight when it is presented as the well-considered view of a universally revered sage, emphasizing humility before wisdom and fidelity in transmission.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśampāyana signals a transition: he is about to present, in full, Vyāsa’s complete opinion/teaching, highlighting Vyāsa’s stature and unfading spiritual power to prepare the listener for an authoritative account.