Shloka 7

Ajagara-vrata (The ‘Python’ Discipline): Prahrāda Questions a Wandering Sage

Devanagari script

अयं वै जन्मना विप्र: सुहृत्‌ तस्य महात्मन: । सम्प्रेषितश्न॒ तेनायं काश्यपेन ममान्तिकम्‌,वे मन ही-मन कहने लगे, “यह केवल जन्मसे ही ब्राह्मण है; परंतु महात्मा राजधर्माका सुहृद्‌ है। उन कश्यपकुमारने ही इसे यहाँ मेरे पास भेजा है; अतः उनका प्रिय कार्य अवश्य करूँगा। वह सदा मुझपर भरोसा रखता है और मेरा भाई, बान्धव तथा हार्दिक मित्र भी है

Transliteration

ayaṃ vai janmanā vipraḥ suhṛt tasya mahātmanaḥ | sampreṣitaś ca tenāyaṃ kāśyapena mamāntikam ||

Translation

Bhishma said: “This man is a brahmin only by birth; yet he is the trusted well-wisher of that great-souled one. It is that Kāśyapa who has sent him here to me. Therefore I shall certainly accomplish what is dear to him.”

Word by Word

अयम्this (man)

वैindeed

जन्मनाby birth

विप्रःa brahmin

सुहृत्friend, well-wisher

तस्यof him

महात्मनःof the great-souled one

सम्प्रेषितःsent, dispatched

चand

तेनby him

अयम्this (man)

काश्यपेनby Kāśyapa

ममof me, my

अन्तिकम्near (to), presence

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Kāśyapa

mahātmā (unnamed great-souled person)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes