Shloka 556

Devanagari script

नान्यदस्ति परं मित्र यथा पाण्डववृष्णय: । वार्ष्णेय! पांचाल लोग भी यदि समुद्रतककी सारी पृथ्वी खोज डालें, तो भी उन्हें दूसरा कोई वैसा मित्र नहीं मिलेगा, जैसे उनके लिये पाण्डव और वृष्णिवंशके लोग हैं

Transliteration

na anyad asti paraṁ mitra yathā pāṇḍava-vṛṣṇayaḥ | vārṣṇeya! pāñcālā lokā api yadi samudra-takāṁ sārāṁ pṛthivīṁ khojaḍāleṁ, to ’pi tebhyo dvitīyo na kaścid evaṁ-vidho mitraṁ labhyeta, yathā teṣāṁ kṛte pāṇḍavāś ca vṛṣṇi-vaṁśa-janaś ca |

Translation

Sañjaya said: “There is no friendship higher than that of the Pāṇḍavas and the Vṛṣṇis. O Vārṣṇeya, even if the people of Pāñcāla were to search the whole earth to the ocean’s edge, they would still not find another friend like the Pāṇḍavas and the men of the Vṛṣṇi line—such allies as these are for them.”

Word by Word

• na: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na

• anyat: anything else
• anyat: Karta
• Type: Pronoun/Adjective
• Root: anya
• Form: neuter, nominative, singular

• asti: exists/is
• Type: Verb
• Root: as
• Form: present indicative (lat), 3rd, singular, parasmaipada

• param: higher/supreme
• param: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: para
• Form: neuter, nominative, singular

• mitra: O friend
• Type: Noun
• Root: mitra
• Form: neuter, vocative, singular

• yathā: as/just as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: yathā

• pāṇḍava-vṛṣṇayaḥ: the Pāṇḍavas and the Vṛṣṇis
• pāṇḍava-vṛṣṇayaḥ: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: pāṇḍava + vṛṣṇi
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Pāṇḍavas
• Vṛṣṇis (Vṛṣṇi clan/Yādavas)
• Vārṣṇeya (Kṛṣṇa, by epithet)
• Pāñcāla (people/kingdom)
• Ocean (samudra)
• Earth (pṛthivī)