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Shloka 5

अहिंसा-आत्मौपम्य-उपदेशः | Instruction on Ahiṃsā and Self-Comparison Ethics

Devanagari script

नाभिं भाद्रपदे विद्याद्‌ रेवत्यामक्षिमण्डलम्‌ | पृष्ठमेव धनिष्ठासु अनुराधोत्तरास्तथा

Transliteration

Bhīṣma uvāca — Nābhiṃ bhādrapade vidyād Revatyām akṣimaṇḍalam | Pṛṣṭham eva Dhaniṣṭhāsu Anurādhottarās tathā ||

Translation

Bhīṣma sprach: „Wisse: Der Nabel gehört zu (Pūrva/Uttara-)Bhādrapadā; der Kreis der Augen zu Revatī; und der Rücken ist in Dhaniṣṭhā verortet. Ebenso verstehe, dass Anurādhā und die ‘Uttarā’ jeweils entsprechend eingesetzt werden.“

Word by Word

नाभिम्navel

भाद्रपदेin (the nakshatra/month) Bhādrapada

विद्यात्should know/should identify

रेवत्याम्in Revatī

अक्षिमण्डलम्the eye-region/orb (circle of the eye)

पृष्ठम्back

एवindeed/just

धनिष्ठासुin (the nakshatra) Dhaniṣṭhā (lit. among Dhaniṣṭhās)

अनुराधाAnurādhā

उत्तराःthe Uttaras (Uttaraphalgunī, Uttarāṣāḍhā, Uttarabhādrapadā)

तथाlikewise/also

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Bhādrapadā (Pūrvabhādrapadā / Uttarabhādrapadā)

Revatī

Dhaniṣṭhā

Anurādhā

Uttarā (Uttara-nakṣatra group)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches a traditional correspondence between bodily regions (navel, eyes, back) and specific nakṣatras, reflecting a dharmic-ritual worldview in which the human body is read as a microcosm aligned with cosmic order.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Anuśāsana Parva, Bhīṣma continues instructing Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma and allied traditional sciences; here he enumerates astral correspondences, assigning particular nakṣatras to parts of the body as part of a larger explanatory scheme.