Shloka 25

Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)

Devanagari script

पराशरगोत्री संन्यास-धर्मावलम्बी वृद्ध महात्मा पंचशिख मेरे गुरु हैं। मैं उनका परम प्रिय शिष्य हूँ ।। सांख्यज्ञाने च योगे च महीपालविधौ तथा । त्रिविधे मोक्षधर्मेडस्मिन्‌ गताध्वा छिन्नसंशय:

Transliteration

sāṅkhyajñāne ca yoge ca mahīpālavidhau tathā | trividhe mokṣadharme 'smin gatādhvā chinnasaṁśayaḥ ||

Translation

Janaka sprach: „Der betagte Mahātmā Pañcaśikha, aus der Gotra des Parāśara und dem Dharma des Saṃnyāsa verpflichtet, ist mein Lehrer; ich bin sein liebster Schüler. In der Erkenntnis des Sāṅkhya und im Yoga, ebenso wie in der Disziplin des Königtums, hat mein Lehrer den Weg vollständig durchmessen. In dieser dreifachen Lehre von der Befreiung hat er das jenseitige Ufer erreicht, alle Zweifel abgeschnitten.“

Word by Word

साङ्ख्यज्ञानेin Sāṅkhya-knowledge

चand

योगेin Yoga

चand

महीपालविधौin the rule/duty of a king

तथाlikewise/also

त्रिविधेin the threefold

मोक्षधर्मेin the doctrine/duty of liberation

अस्मिन्in this

गताध्वाone who has gone the path (experienced/versed)

छिन्नसंशयःwhose doubts are cut off (free from doubt)

Speaker

जनक उवाच

Characters & Entities

Janaka

Sāṅkhya

Yoga

Mokṣadharma

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?

Liberation-oriented wisdom is presented as a threefold mastery: Sāṅkhya (right knowledge and discrimination), Yoga (inner discipline and practice), and rājadharma (ethical governance). A true teacher is one who has integrated these and become free of doubt.

What is happening in the narrative?

Janaka is describing the spiritual authority of his teacher, praising him as accomplished in philosophical insight, yogic discipline, and the duties of rulership, thereby establishing the teacher’s credibility in matters of mokṣadharma.