Shloka 7

Devanagari script

वेदज्ञानं च ते कृत्स्नं तपश्चाचरितं महत्‌ । पितृपैतामहं राज्यं धुर्यवद्‌ वोढुमरहसि,तुम्हें वेदका पूरा-पूरा ज्ञान है, तुमने बड़ी भारी तपस्या की है। इसलिये अपने पिता- पितामहोंके इस राज्यका भार तुम्हें एक धुरन्धर पुरुषकी भाँति वहन करना चाहिये

Transliteration

vedajñānaṃ ca te kṛtsnaṃ tapaścācaritaṃ mahat | pitṛpaitāmahaṃ rājyaṃ dhuryavad voḍhum arhasi ||

Translation

Vyāsa sprach: „Du besitzt die vollständige Kenntnis der Veden und hast große Askesen geübt. Darum bist du geeignet, wie ein tüchtiger und standhafter Führer, die Last dieses angestammten Reiches zu tragen, das dir von deinem Vater und deinen Vorfahren überliefert wurde.“

Word by Word

वेदज्ञानम्knowledge of the Veda

चand

तेof you/your

कृत्स्नम्entire, complete

तपःausterity, penance

चand

आचरितम्practised, performed

महत्great

पितृपैतामहम्ancestral (of father and grandfather)

राज्यम्kingdom, sovereignty

धुर्यवत्like a capable bearer of burdens

वोढुम्to bear, to carry

अर्हसिyou are fit/you ought

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vyāsa

Vedas

ancestral kingdom (rājya)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Learning (Vedic knowledge) and self-discipline (tapas) qualify a person for public responsibility; one should accept and carry the inherited duty of governance as a moral obligation, not as a mere privilege.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vyāsa addresses the addressee (a prospective ruler) and, citing his complete Vedic learning and great austerities, urges him to shoulder the burden of the ancestral kingdom like a competent, steadfast leader.