Shloka 6

Devanagari script

अगतिक्न गतिश्वैव लोकस्य विदिता तव । आयत्यां च तदात्वे च न ते<स्त्यविदितं प्रभो,“आप सम्पूर्ण शास्त्रोंके ज्ञाता और इस जगत्‌के राजा होकर क्यों कायर मनुष्यके समान दीनतावश मोहमें पड़े हुए हैं। आपको संसारकी गति और अगति दोनोंका ज्ञान है। प्रभो! आपसे न तो वर्तमान छिपा है और न भविष्य ही

Transliteration

agatiṁ ca gatiṁ caiva lokasya viditā tava | āyatyāṁ ca tadātve ca na te 'sty aviditaṁ prabho ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “To you, O lord, both the downfall and the true course of the world are well known. In what is to come and in what is present, nothing remains unknown to you.”

Word by Word

• {'agatiṁ': 'non-course

• a state with no proper way forward', 'gatiṁ': 'course

• proper outcome', 'ca ... caiva': 'both ... and indeed', 'lokasya': 'of the world

• of people/society', 'viditā': 'known

• understood', 'tava': 'to you

• your', 'āyatyām': 'in the future

• in what is to come', 'tadātve': 'in the present moment

• in the immediate now', 'na': 'not', 'te': 'to you

• for you', 'asti': 'is

• exists', 'aviditam': 'unknown

• not understood', 'prabho': 'O lord

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• prabhu (addressed lord)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A ruler (or moral agent) should not succumb to confusion or despair when endowed with discernment; true wisdom recognizes both the right course (gati) and the disastrous course (agati), and acts with clarity about present duties and future consequences.

What is happening in the narrative?

Within the Shanti Parva’s instruction-oriented setting, the speaker underscores the addressee’s comprehensive understanding—of worldly outcomes and of time (present and future)—as a way to steady and admonish him toward resolute, dharmic judgment.