Shloka 73
Ajñātavāsa-saṅkalpaḥ — Yudhiṣṭhira’s Resolve and Dhaumya’s Exempla on Concealment
तमुवाचाथ सावित्री रजनी व्यवगाहते । श्वस्ते सर्व यथावृत्तमाख्यास्यामि नृपात्मज,तब सावित्री उनसे बोली--राजकुमार! रात बढ़ती जा रही है। कल सबेरे मैं आपसे सब बातें ठीक-ठीक बताऊँगी
tam uvāca atha sāvitrī rajanī vyavagāhate | śvas te sarva-yathāvṛttam ākhyāsyāmi nṛpātmaja ||
Da sprach Sāvitrī zu ihm: „O Prinz, die Nacht schreitet voran. Morgen früh werde ich dir, genau wie es geschah, alles vollständig berichten.“
यम उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights disciplined speech and truthfulness: one should speak fully and accurately (“yathāvṛttam”) but also with sensitivity to time and circumstance, postponing detailed narration until an appropriate moment.
Sāvitrī addresses a prince and notes that the night is growing late; she promises that the next morning she will explain everything that happened, in exact detail.