Shloka 18

अध्याय ९ — धृतराष्ट्रस्य युधिष्ठिरं प्रति राजनित्युपदेशः

Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Counsel on Royal Policy to Yudhiṣṭhira

Devanagari script

त्यक्ता वयं तु भवता दुःखशोकपरायणा: । भविष्यामश्रिरं राजन्‌ भवद्‌्गुणशतैर्युता:

Transliteration

tyaktā vayaṁ tu bhavatā duḥkhaśokaparāyaṇāḥ | bhaviṣyāmaśriraṁ rājan bhavad-guṇaśatair yutāḥ ||

Translation

Abandoned by you, we have become wholly given over to sorrow and grief. Yet, O King, we shall continue to live on—sustained and upheld by the hundreds of virtues that belong to you.

Word by Word

• त्यक्ताः: abandoned, forsaken
• त्यक्ताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: त्यक्त (√त्यज्)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• वयम्: we
• वयम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Nominative, Plural

• तु: but, indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• भवता: by you (sir)
• भवता: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भवत्
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• दुःखशोकपरायणाः: devoted to/absorbed in sorrow and grief
• दुःखशोकपरायणाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दुःख-शोक-परायण
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• भविष्यामः: we shall be
• Type: Verb
• Root: √भू
• Form: Simple Future (लृट्), 1st, Plural

• अश्रियम्: misfortune, lack of prosperity
• अश्रियम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अ-श्री
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• राजन्: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• भवत्: of you, your
• भवत्: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: भवत्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• गुणशतैः: with hundreds of virtues
• गुणशतैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: गुण-शत
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Plural

• युताः: endowed, joined (with)
• युताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: युत (√युज्)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• rājan (the King, addressed)