Shloka 3

Devanagari script

भीम: प्रियस्ते सर्वेभ्यो भ्रातृभ्यो भरतर्षभ । त॑ कृच्छुगतमद्य त्वं कस्मान्नाभ्युपपद्यसे

Transliteration

bhīmaḥ priyaste sarvebhyo bhrātṛbhyo bharatarṣabha | taṁ kṛcchugataṁ adya tvaṁ kasmān nābhyupapadyase ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sagte: „O Stier unter den Bhāratas, Bhīma ist dir lieber als alle deine Brüder. Da er nun in Not geraten ist, warum eilst du ihm nicht zu Hilfe?“

Word by Word

भीमःBhima

प्रियःdear, beloved

तेto you

सर्वेभ्यःfrom all

भ्रातृभ्यःfrom (your) brothers

भरतर्षभO bull among the Bharatas

तत्that (state/thing)

कृच्छुगतम्fallen into distress, in hardship

अद्यtoday, now

त्वम्you

कस्मात्from what cause? why?

नnot

अभ्युपपद्यसेyou accept/submit to, you assent/comply

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Bhīma

Bharatas

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Affection and kinship imply responsibility: when a loved one is in distress, one should not remain passive but should step forward to support and protect, aligning personal feeling with dharmic duty.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator frames an appeal to a Bharata hero: since Bhīma is especially dear to him and is presently in hardship, the addressee is questioned for not approaching to assist—highlighting urgency and the moral expectation of fraternal aid amid crisis.