Shloka 10

उद्योगपर्व अध्याय १३३ — संजये मातृउपदेशः

Udyoga Parva Adhyaya 133 — A Mother’s Counsel to Saṃjaya

Devanagari script

यस्य हार्थाभिनिर्वत्तौ भवन्त्याप्यायिता: परे | तस्यार्थसिद्धिर्नियता नयेष्वर्थानुसारिण:

Transliteration

yasya hārthābhinirvattau bhavanty āpyāyitāḥ pare | tasyārthasiddhir niyatā nayeṣv arthānusāriṇaḥ ||

Translation

Wenn das Vorhaben eines Menschen die beabsichtigte Frucht erreicht und durch diesen Erfolg auch andere, die mit ihm verbunden sind, genährt werden und gedeihen, dann ist für jenen Menschen—der seine Ziele im Einklang mit kluger Ordnung und rechtschaffenem Wandel (Dharma) verfolgt—die Erlangung des Gewünschten gewiss.

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'yasya', 'definition': 'of whom

• whose'}, {'term': 'artha', 'definition': 'purpose, aim

• also material interest/wealth (context-dependent)'}, {'term': 'abhinirvṛtti', 'definition': 'accomplishment, completion, successful execution'}, {'term': 'āpyāyitāḥ', 'definition': 'nourished, satisfied, strengthened, made to prosper'}, {'term': 'pare', 'definition': 'others

• other people (connected/associated)'}, {'term': 'arthasiddhi', 'definition': 'success in one’s aim

• attainment of the objective'}, {'term': 'niyatā', 'definition': 'certain, assured, inevitable'}, {'term': 'naya', 'definition': 'policy, prudent conduct, right method

• ethical statecraft'}, {'term': 'arthānusārin', 'definition': 'one who follows/acts in accordance with the (right) aim

Speaker

पुत्र उवाच

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

True success is not merely personal gain: when one pursues one’s aims through nīti (upright, prudent means) and the outcome also benefits and strengthens others, the achievement of one’s objective becomes steady and assured.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Udyoga Parva’s counsel-oriented setting, the speaker (identified as “the son”) states a general maxim of conduct: a person whose successful undertaking brings welfare to associates, and who proceeds by proper policy, is certain to accomplish his intended goal.