Shloka 4636

Brahmacarya-Upāya: Jñāna, Śauca, and the Mind’s Role in Desire (शान्ति पर्व, अध्याय २०७)

Devanagari script

एवमेष कुरुश्रेष्ठ प्रादुर्भूतो महात्मना । कुरुश्रेष्ठ) इस प्रकार महात्मा श्रीकृष्णने इस लोकको उत्पन्न किया है

Transliteration

evam eṣa kuruśreṣṭha prādurbhūto mahātmanā |

Translation

Bhīṣma said: “Thus, O best of the Kurus, this manifestation has come forth through the agency of the Great-Souled One—indicating that the world’s arising is to be understood as grounded in a supreme, purposeful source rather than mere chance.”

Word by Word

• एवम्: thus, in this manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• एषः: this (one)
• एषः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• कुरुश्रेष्ठ: O best of the Kurus
• Type: Noun (vocative address)
• Root: कुरु-श्रेष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• प्रादुर्भूतः: manifested, appeared
• प्रादुर्भूतः: Karta
• Type: Adjective/Participle
• Root: प्रादुर्भूत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• महात्मना: by the great-souled one
• महात्मना: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: महात्मन्
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Kuruśreṣṭha (addressed person, traditionally Yudhiṣṭhira)
• Mahātmā (the Great-Souled One; in context often understood as a supreme divine agent)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames the world or a described phenomenon as a deliberate manifestation arising through a ‘mahātman’—a great or supreme agent—supporting an ethical-theological view that reality has an ordered source and is to be approached with reverence and responsibility.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva’s instruction to the Kuru king, Bhīṣma continues a doctrinal explanation and addresses the listener as ‘Kuruśreṣṭha,’ concluding a point by stating that ‘this’ has manifested through the Great-Souled One.