Shloka 12

Uttanka’s Inquiry and Vāsudeva’s Adhyātma Exposition

Guṇa–Ritual–Immanence Teaching

Devanagari script

कच्चित्‌ पाण्डुसुता: पञठ्च धृतराष्ट्रस्य चात्मजा: । लोकेषु विहरिष्यन्ति त्वयवा सह परंतप

Transliteration

kaccit pāṇḍusutāḥ pañca dhṛtarāṣṭrasya cātmajāḥ | lokeṣu viharīṣyanti tvayā vā saha parantapa ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „Wandeln die fünf Söhne Pāṇḍus und auch die Söhne Dhṛtarāṣṭras noch in der Welt umher—sei es an deiner Seite oder unter deinem Schutz, o Bezwinger der Feinde?“

Word by Word

• कच्चित्: whether? (I hope/indeed?)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: कच्चित्

• पाण्डुसुताः: the sons of Pāṇḍu
• पाण्डुसुताः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाण्डुसुत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• पञ्च: five
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पञ्च

• धृतराष्ट्रस्य: of Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• Type: Noun
• Root: धृतराष्ट्र
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• आत्मजाः: sons (born of him)
• आत्मजाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: आत्मज
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• लोकेषु: in the worlds / among people
• लोकेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोक
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Plural

• विहरिष्यन्ति: will roam / will live freely
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + हृ
• Form: Simple Future (Luṭ), Third, Plural

• त्वया: by/with you
• त्वया: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद्
• Form: Masculine/Feminine (pronoun), Instrumental, Singular

• वा: or
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: वा

• सह: together with
• सह: Karana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सह

• परंतप: O scorcher of foes (epithet)
• Type: Noun
• Root: परंतप
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Pāṇḍu
• Pāṇḍavas (five sons of Pāṇḍu)
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra
• sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra (Kauravas)
• parantapa (epithet of the addressee)