Shloka 41

कालनिर्णयः, युगधर्मवर्णनम्, सृष्टिक्रमश्च

Time-Reckoning, Yuga-Dharma, and the Sequence of Creation

Devanagari script

द्वादशानां तु भवतामादित्यानां महात्मनाम्‌ | तेजांस्येकेन सर्वेषां देवराज धृतानि मे,देवराज! तुमलोग जो बारह महात्मा आदित्य कहलाते हो, तुम सब लोगोंके तेज मैंने अकेले धारण कर रखे थे

Transliteration

dvādaśānāṁ tu bhavatām ādityānāṁ mahātmanām | tejāṁsy ekena sarveṣāṁ devarāja dhṛtāni me ||

Translation

Śakra (Indra) sprach: „O Devarāja, ihr seid die zwölf großbeseelten Ādityas; und doch habe ich allein die Glanzkräfte von euch allen in mir getragen.“ Im Zusammenhang betont dies, dass sich kollektive Macht in einem einzigen Herrscher bündeln kann—als Last der Obhut und als ethische Pflicht, diese gemeinsame Strahlkraft ohne Hochmut und ohne Missbrauch zu führen.

Word by Word

द्वादशानाम्of twelve

तुbut/indeed

भवताम्of you (honorific)

आदित्यानाम्of the Adityas

महात्मनाम्of the great-souled ones

तेजांसिsplendors/energies

एकेनby one (alone)

सर्वेषाम्of all

देवराजO king of gods

धृतानिborne/held

मेby me / for me / my

Speaker

श॒क्र उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śakra (Indra)

Ādityas (twelve)

Devarāja (king of the gods, as an addressee)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Collective excellence or divine power concentrated in one leader becomes a moral burden: it must be sustained with restraint, humility, and responsibility, not treated as personal entitlement.

What is happening in the narrative?

Śakra (Indra) addresses the Devarāja, referring to the twelve Ādityas, and declares that he alone had been sustaining the combined radiance of all of them—highlighting his role as the bearer of their shared splendor.