Shloka 17

Devanagari script

राजकिल्बिषिणां तेषां भर्तृपिण्डापहारिणाम्‌ | नैवायं न परो लोको विद्यते पापकर्मणाम्‌

Transliteration

rājakilbiṣiṇāṁ teṣāṁ bhartṛpiṇḍāpahāriṇām | naivāyaṁ na paro loko vidyate pāpakarmaṇām ||

Translation

Karna erklärte: „Für jene, die sich am König vergehen und den Lebensunterhalt rauben, der ihrem rechtmäßigen Herrn zusteht, gibt es weder Wohlergehen in dieser Welt noch einen guten Zustand in der nächsten. Von sündigem Tun befleckt, verlieren sie beides.“

Word by Word

• राज: of kings
• राज: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• किल्बिषिणाम्: sinful, guilty
• किल्बिषिणाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Adjective
• Root: किल्बिषिन्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• तेषाम्: of those
• तेषाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• भर्तृ: of the husband/master
• भर्तृ: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: भर्तृ
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• पिण्ड: food-morsel, share (of sustenance)
• पिण्ड: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पिण्ड
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• अपहारिणाम्: of those who steal/appropriate
• अपहारिणाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अपहारिन्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• एव: indeed, certainly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• अयम्: this (one/this world)
• अयम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• न: nor/not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• परः: other (world)
• परः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• लोकः: world
• लोकः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• विद्यते: exists/is found
• Type: Verb
• Root: विद् (विद्+य, आत्मनेपद; present of √विद् 'to be found/exist')
• Form: Present, Third, Singular, Atmanepada

• पाप: sinful/evil
• पाप: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पाप
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• कर्मणाम्: of deeds/actions
• कर्मणाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: कर्मन्
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

Speaker

कर्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Karna
• king (rāja)
• master/lord (bhartṛ)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Betrayal of rightful authority and theft of another’s due sustenance are grave adharma; such wrongdoing destroys both worldly stability and otherworldly merit—one loses benefit in this life and in the next.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Udyoga Parva’s pre-war deliberations, Karna speaks in a condemnatory, moralizing tone, asserting that those who offend the king and deprive a rightful protector/master of his due are doomed to lack welfare here and hereafter.