Shloka 2

उद्योगपर्व — अध्याय १५१: कृष्णस्य कौरव-अवज्ञा-निर्णयः तथा पाण्डव-योगाज्ञा

Krishna on the Kauravas’ Rejection of Counsel; Pandava Readiness Ordered

Devanagari script

परिहृत्य श्मशानानि देवतायतनानि च । आश्रमांश्व महर्षीणां तीर्थान्यायतनानि च

Transliteration

parihṛtya śmaśānāni devatāyatanāni ca | āśramāṁś ca maharṣīṇāṁ tīrthāny āyatanāni ca ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: Indem er Verbrennungsstätten, Tempel der Götter, Einsiedeleien großer ṛṣis, heilige Furten (tīrtha) und geweihte Bezirke mied, führte Yudhiṣṭhira, der weise Sohn der Kuntī, sein Heer weit fort und ließ es an einem angenehmen, sauberen und reinen Ort lagern—damit die Gegenwart des Heeres die geheiligten Stätten nicht störe und die ihnen gebührende Ehrfurcht nicht verletze.

Word by Word

• परिहृत्य: having avoided/abandoned
• Type: Verb
• Root: परि-हृ (धातु)
• Form: क्त्वान्त अव्यय (gerund), कर्तरि

• श्मशानानि: cremation grounds
• श्मशानानि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्मशान (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, बहुवचन

• देवतायतनानि: temples/shrines of deities
• देवतायतनानि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: देवतायतन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, बहुवचन

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• आश्रमान्: hermitages
• आश्रमान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: आश्रम (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, बहुवचन

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• महर्षीणाम्: of great sages
• Type: Noun
• Root: महर्षि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी, बहुवचन

• तीर्थानि: pilgrimage fords/holy places
• तीर्थानि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: तीर्थ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, बहुवचन

• आयतनानि: abodes/places
• आयतनानि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: आयतन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, बहुवचन

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Kuntī
• śmaśāna (cremation grounds)
• devatāyatanāni (temples/shrines)
• āśramāḥ (hermitages of maharṣis)
• tīrthāni (pilgrimage sites)
• āyatanāni (holy precincts)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even in the urgency of war, one should protect and honor sacred spaces—cremation grounds, temples, hermitages, and tīrthas—by avoiding disturbance and maintaining ritual and ethical propriety.

What is happening in the narrative?

As the Pāṇḍava forces move and prepare, Yudhiṣṭhira chooses an encampment far from sanctified sites, ensuring the army does not profane or disrupt places associated with worship, ascetic practice, and pilgrimage.