Shloka 34

कुरुवंशप्रश्नः—दुःषन्तस्य राजधर्मवर्णनम्

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

Devanagari script

भगवांक्षापि देवेशो यत्र देवी च कीर्त्यते | अनेकजननो यत्र कार्तिकेयस्य सम्भव:,देवेश्वर भगवान्‌ शिव और देवी पार्वतीका भी इसमें वर्णन है तथा अनेक माताओंसे उत्पन्न होनेवाले कार्तिकेय-जीके जन्मका प्रसंग भी इसमें कहा गया है

Transliteration

bhagavāṁś cāpi deveśo yatra devī ca kīrtyate | anekajananō yatra kārtikeyasya sambhavaḥ ||

Translation

Darin wird auch der gesegnete Herr, der Herr der Götter—Śiva—und die Göttin Pārvatī gepriesen; und dort wird ebenso die Begebenheit von der Geburt Kārtikeyas erzählt, von dem es heißt, er sei durch viele Mütter hervorgebracht worden. Der Vers weist auf den umfassenden Horizont des Epos: Es ehrt göttliche Ursprünge und heilige Erzählungen, die spätere Ereignisse in kosmischer Ordnung und Ehrfurcht verankern.

Word by Word

भगवान्the Blessed Lord

अपिalso

देवेशःthe lord of the gods

यत्रwhere

देवीthe Goddess

चand

कीर्त्यतेis praised / is mentioned

अनेकजननःhaving many mothers / born of many mothers

यत्रwhere

कार्तिकेयस्यof Kārttikeya

सम्भवःbirth / origin

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Śiva

Pārvatī

Kārtikeya (Skanda)

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores reverent remembrance (kīrtana) of divine figures and origins: sacred histories of Śiva, Pārvatī, and Kārtikeya are presented as worthy of praise and as part of the epic’s moral-cosmic framework, reminding listeners that human events unfold within a larger divine order.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana is describing the contents of the account being narrated: it includes praise/mention of Śiva and the Goddess, and it also contains the episode of Kārtikeya’s birth—characterized here as involving ‘many mothers’—signposting a well-known mythic section embedded within the broader Adi Parva narration.