Shloka 28

युधिष्ठिरस्य कृष्णार्जुनादि-समाश्वासनम्

Yudhiṣṭhira’s reassurance and praise of Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna, Bhīma, and Sātyaki

Devanagari script

एवमुक्तस्तव सुतो नाब्रवीत्‌ किंचिदप्यसौ । श्रुतं चाश्रुतवत्‌ कृत्वा प्रायाद्‌ येन स सात्यकि:,द्रोणाचार्यके ऐसा कहनेपर आपका पुत्र दुःशासन कुछ भी नहीं बोला। वह उनकी सुनी हुई बातोंको भी अनसुनी-सी करके उसी मार्गपर चल दिया, जिससे सात्यकि गये थे

Transliteration

evam uktas tava suto nābravīt kiñcid apy asau | śrutaṃ cāśrutavat kṛtvā prāyād yena sa sātyakiḥ ||

Translation

Sañjaya said: Thus addressed, your son did not utter a single word. Treating what he had heard as though unheard, he set off along the very path by which Sātyaki had gone.

Word by Word

एवम्thus

उक्तःhaving been spoken to / addressed

तवof you / your

सुतःson

नnot

अब्रवीत्said / spoke

किञ्चित्anything

अपिeven

असौthat one (he)

श्रुतम्what was heard

चand

अश्रुतवत्as if unheard

कृत्वाhaving made / having done

प्रायात्went forth / departed

येनby which (way)

सःhe

सात्यकिःSātyaki

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

Duḥśāsana

Sātyaki

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes