Shloka 7

Devanagari script

तथायुक्तं च तद्‌ दृष्टवा जन्मवेश्म पितुस्तव

Transliteration

tathāyuktaṃ ca tad dṛṣṭvā janmaveśma pitus tava

Translation

Seeing that it was arranged and fitting in that manner, and beholding your father’s birth-house, Vaiśampāyana continued.

Word by Word

• तथा: thus, in that manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• युक्तम्: fitting, proper; joined/arranged
• Type: Adjective
• Root: युक्त
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

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

• तत्: that (thing)
• तत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• दृष्ट्वा: having seen
• Type: Verb
• Root: दृश्
• Form: Absolutive (Gerund)

• जन्मवेश्म: birth-house, natal home
• जन्मवेश्म: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: जन्मन् + वेश्मन्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• पितुः: of (your) father
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितृ
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• तव: of you, your
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Genitive, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• your father (pituḥ)
• birth-house (janmaveśma)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The line foregrounds appropriateness (yukta) and recognition of one’s origins (janmaveśma, pituḥ), suggesting that dharmic action is tied to proper arrangement, respect for lineage, and situating events within rightful social and familial order.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana describes someone observing that things are suitably arranged and seeing the father’s birth-house, marking a narrative moment of arrival/recognition that supports the larger Ashvamedha-related setting and its emphasis on legitimacy and order.