Shloka 10

Uttanka’s Inquiry and Vāsudeva’s Adhyātma Exposition

Guṇa–Ritual–Immanence Teaching

Devanagari script

कच्चिच्छौरे त्वया गत्वा कुरुपाण्डवसझ तत्‌ | कृतं॑ सौश्रात्रमचलं तन्मे व्याख्यातुमहसि,'शूरनन्दन! क्‍या तुम कौरवों और पाण्डवोंके घर जाकर उनमें अविचल भ्रातृभाव स्थापित कर आये? यह बात मुझे विस्तारके साथ बताओ

Transliteration

kaccic chauri tvayā gatvā kuru-pāṇḍava-saṅghaṁ tat | kṛtaṁ sauśrātram acalaṁ tan me vyākhyātum arhasi ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „O Śauri, nachdem du zu jener Versammlung der Kurus und der Pāṇḍavas gegangen bist, ist es dir gelungen, unter ihnen ein unerschütterliches Band der Brüderlichkeit zu begründen? Erkläre mir dies ausführlich.“

Word by Word

कच्चित्whether indeed?, I hope

शौरेO descendant of Śūra (O Śauri)

त्वयाby you

गत्वाhaving gone

कुरु-पाण्डव-सत्the Kurus and the Pāṇḍavas (the good among them)

तत्that (matter/thing)

कृतम्done, accomplished

सौश्रात्रम्brotherly concord / fraternal amity

अचलम्unshaken, firm

तत्that

मेto me

व्याख्यातुम्to explain

अर्हसिyou ought / you are able

शूर-नन्दनO son of a hero

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Śauri (Kṛṣṇa)

Kurus

Pāṇḍavas

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse foregrounds dharma as social repair: after conflict, the highest ethical task is to restore stable kinship and unity (acala sauśrātra) among related houses, not merely to end hostilities outwardly.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana questions Śauri (Kṛṣṇa) about his visit to the Kurus and Pāṇḍavas, asking whether he has successfully established firm brotherly concord among them, and requests a detailed account.