Shloka 3

अर्जुन-कर्ण-सङ्ग्रामः

Arjuna–Karna Engagement in the Cattle-Raid Aftermath

Devanagari script

देशकालेन संयुक्त युद्धं विजयदं भवेत्‌ । हीनकालं तदेवेह फलं न लभते पुनः । देशे काले च विक्रान्तं कल्याणाय विधीयते

Transliteration

deśakālena saṁyuktaṁ yuddhaṁ vijayadaṁ bhavet | hīnakālaṁ tadeveha phalaṁ na labhate punaḥ | deśe kāle ca vikrāntaṁ kalyāṇāya vidhīyate ||

Translation

Kripa sprach: „Ein Kampf, der im Einklang mit Ort und Zeit begonnen wird, wird zum Spender des Sieges. Doch derselbe Kampf, wenn er zur Unzeit eröffnet wird, bringt keinen Ertrag. Tapferkeit, die Ort und Zeit gebührend bedenkt, führt wahrhaft zum Wohlergehen.“

Word by Word

• {'deśa': 'place, terrain, locality', 'kāla': 'time, season, occasion', 'deśakālena saṁyuktam': 'joined with (i.e., aligned to) place and time

• undertaken with strategic propriety', 'yuddham': 'battle, warfare', 'vijayadam': 'granting victory', 'bhavet': 'would be, becomes', 'hīna-kālam': 'deficient/unsuitable time

• ill-timed', 'tad eva': 'that very (same thing)', 'iha': 'here (in this world/this context)', 'phalam': 'fruit, outcome, result', 'na labhate': 'does not obtain', 'punaḥ': 'again, thereafter', 'vikrāntam': 'heroic effort, valor, prowess', 'kalyāṇāya': 'for welfare, for auspicious good', 'vidhīyate': 'is ordained/arranged

Speaker

कृप उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Kṛpa