Shloka 533

Devanagari script

उपवासपरिश्रान्तो यदा त्वमपि कर्शित: । “आप भी तो जराजीर्ण, वृद्ध, क्षुधातुर, अत्यन्त दुर्बल, उपवाससे थके हुए और क्षीणकाय हो रहे हैं। (फिर आप जिस तरह भूखका कष्ट सहन करते हैं, उसी प्रकार मैं भी सह लूँगी)'

Transliteration

upavāsa-pariśrānto yadā tvam api karśitaḥ |

Translation

Nakula sprach: „Wenn auch du durch das Fasten erschöpft bist und dein Leib ausgemergelt wird, ist offenbar, dass du gealtert und geschwächt bist, vom Hunger bedrängt und von äußerster Kraftlosigkeit heimgesucht. Darum: So wie du den Schmerz des Hungers erträgst, so werde auch ich ihn ertragen.“

Word by Word

• उपवासपरिश्रान्तः: wearied by fasting
• उपवासपरिश्रान्तः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उपवास-परिश्रान्त
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• यदा: when
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यदा

• त्वम्: you
• त्वम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Masculine/Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• अपि: also/even
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• कर्शितः: emaciated, weakened
• कर्शितः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कर्शित
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

नकुल उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Nakula

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights titikṣā (patient endurance) and shared discipline: one should bear hardship with steadiness, and ethical resolve is strengthened when austerity is undertaken with empathy and solidarity rather than pride.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nakula addresses another person who is visibly weakened by fasting and hunger, pointing out their frailty and fatigue; he then declares that he too will endure the same hunger, presenting the act as a mutual commitment to austerity.