Shloka 38

मृत्यु-काल-प्रबोधनम् (Instruction on Mortality, Time, and Truth) — Mahābhārata, Śānti-parva 169

Devanagari script

गौतम: संनिकर्षेण दस्युभि: समतामियात्‌ | तथा तु वसतस्तस्य दस्युग्रामे सुखं तदा

Transliteration

gautamaḥ saṃnikarṣeṇa dasyubhiḥ samatām iyāt | tathā tu vasatas tasya dasyugrāme sukhaṃ tadā ||

Translation

Bhīṣma said: “By close association with the bandits, Gautama came to resemble them. And while he lived among them in the robbers’ village, he even experienced comfort there for a time.”

Word by Word

• गौतमः: Gautama
• गौतमः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: गौतम
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• संनिकर्षेण: by proximity/association
• संनिकर्षेण: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: संनिकर्ष
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• दस्युभिः: by/with the robbers (Dasyus)
• दस्युभिः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दस्यु
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• समताम्: equality/sameness
• समताम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: समता
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• इयात्: would go/attain
• इयात्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: या (याति)
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), Third, Singular, Parasmaipada

• तथा: thus/so
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• वसतः: of (him) dwelling/living
• Type: Verb
• Root: वस् (वसति)
• Form: Shatr (present active participle), Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• तस्य: of him
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• दस्युग्रामे: in the village of robbers
• दस्युग्रामे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: दस्युग्राम
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• सुखम्: happiness/comfort
• सुखम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुख
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• तदा: then/at that time
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Gautama
• dasyu (bandits/robbers)
• dasyugrāma (bandits' village)