Shloka 6

Devanagari script

शृणु तत्‌ पृथिवीपाल मा च शोके मन: कृथा: । दिष्टमेतत्‌ पुरा नूनमिदमेव नराधिप,भूपाल! मैंने हाथियों, घोड़ों तथा अमिततेजस्वी राजाओंके विषयमें जो कुछ अपनी आँखों देखा है और योगबलसे जिसका साक्षात्कार किया है, वह सब वृत्तान्त सुना रहा हूँ, सुनिये। अपने मनको शोकमें न डालिये। नरेश्वर! निश्चय ही दैवका यह सारा विधान मुझे पहलेसे ही प्रत्यक्ष हो चुका है

Transliteration

śṛṇu tat pṛthivīpāla mā ca śoke manaḥ kṛthāḥ | diṣṭam etat purā nūnam idam eva narādhipa ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: “Listen, O protector of the earth; do not cast your mind into grief. This very outcome, O lord of men, has surely been ordained from of old.”

Word by Word

शृणुhear, listen

तत्that (thing)

पृथिवीपालO king (protector of the earth)

माdo not

चand

शोकेin grief

मनःmind

कृथाःmake, place (do)

दिष्टम्ordained, destined

एतत्this

पुराformerly, earlier

नूनम्surely, indeed

इदम्this

एवjust, indeed, only

नराधिपO lord of men (king)

भूपालO king (earth-protector)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied addressee as pṛthivīpāla/narādhipa)

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?

Sañjaya urges the king to restrain grief and recognize the working of diṣṭa—what is ordained—framing the coming war-events as part of an already-set cosmic order rather than a merely personal catastrophe.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya addresses the king and prepares to recount what he has witnessed (and, by special insight, comprehended), first consoling him: ‘Listen; do not grieve; this outcome was destined long ago.’