Shloka 22

Devanagari script

मया भवतु निर्वत्तं वैरमादित्यनन्दन । पृथिव्यां सर्वराजानो भवन्त्वद्य निरामया:,'सूर्यनन्दन! मेरी मृत्युके द्वारा ही यह वैरकी आग बुझ जाय और भूमण्डलके समस्त नरेश अब दुःख-शोकसे रहित एवं निर्भय हो जाये

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca | mayā bhavatu nirvṛttaṃ vairaṃ ādityanandana | pṛthivyāṃ sarvarājāno bhavantv adya nirāmayāḥ ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: “O delight of the Sun’s line, let this enmity be brought to an end through me. May all the kings upon the earth, from this very day, become free from affliction—released from grief and fear.”

Word by Word

मयाby me

भवतुlet it be / may it become

निर्वृत्तम्ended, concluded, brought to completion

वैरम्enmity, feud

आदित्यनन्दनO son of Āditya (Sun)

पृथिव्याम्on the earth

सर्वराजानःall kings

भवन्तुlet them be / may they become

अद्यtoday, now

निरामयाःfree from illness/suffering

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Ādityanandana (epithet: son/delight of the Sun)

Pṛthivī (the earth)

Sarvarājānaḥ (all kings)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse voices an ethical longing to end a destructive feud even at personal cost: the speaker wishes that hostility cease “through me,” so that rulers and the world may become free from suffering. It highlights the ideal that peace and the welfare of many outweigh the continuation of vengeance.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the midst of the war context, Sañjaya reports a plea addressed to a Solar-line hero (“Ādityanandana”): the speaker expresses readiness to be the means by which the feud is extinguished, praying that all kings on earth may, from that day, be free from distress, grief, and fear.