Shloka 48

सरस्वतीतीर्थानुक्रमः — बलरामस्य तीर्थयात्रा

Sarasvatī Tīrtha Itinerary — Balarāma’s Pilgrimage

Devanagari script

तथेति चोकक्‍्त्वा विबुधा जग्मू राजन्‌ यथागता:

Transliteration

tatheti coktvā vibudhā jagmur rājan yathāgatāḥ

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „So sei es“, erwiderten sie; und jene himmlischen Wesen, o König, zogen davon und kehrten auf demselben Weg zurück, auf dem sie gekommen waren—einwilligend und sich ohne weiteren Streit zurückziehend, wie es der göttlichen Schicklichkeit entspricht.

Word by Word

तथाthus

इतिso/thus (quotative)

चand

उक्त्वाhaving said

विबुधाःthe wise/learned ones

जग्मुःwent

राजन्O king

यथाas/just as

आगताःhaving come / who had come

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

rājan (the king, i.e., Janamejaya)

vibudhāḥ (celestial beings/devas)

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?

Even powerful beings act within propriety: after giving assent (“so be it”), they withdraw without prolonging dispute, modeling restraint and orderly conduct.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator reports that the celestial beings, having responded “tathā” (“so be it”), depart and return by the same route they came, marking the close of their brief intervention.