Shloka 35

Devanagari script

मदिराश्चश्व राजर्षिदत््वा कन्यां सुमध्यमाम्‌ | हिरण्यहस्ताय गतो लोकान्‌ देवैरभिष्टतान्‌,राजर्षि मदिराश्व हिरण्यहस्तको अपनी सुन्दरी कन्या देकर देववन्दित लोकोंमें गये थे

Transliteration

madirāśvaś ca rājarṣir dattvā kanyāṃ sumadhyamām | hiraṇyahastāya gato lokān devair abhiṣṭutān ||

Translation

Vyāsa said: The royal sage Madirāśva, having given his slender-waisted, beautiful daughter in marriage to Hiraṇyahasta, departed to those worlds that are praised by the gods.

Word by Word

• मदिराश्वः: Madiraashva (proper name, the king)
• मदिराश्वः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मदिराश्व
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• राजर्षिः: royal sage
• राजर्षिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजर्षि
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• दत्त्वा: having given
• Type: Verb
• Root: दा
• Form: क्त्वा, Parasmaipada (usage-neutral for absolutive), Absolutive (gerund)

• कन्याम्: daughter/maiden
• कन्याम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: कन्या
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• सुमध्यमाम्: slender-waisted (beautiful)
• सुमध्यमाम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सुमध्यमा
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• हिरण्यहस्ताय: to Hiranyahasta (proper name; 'golden-handed')
• हिरण्यहस्ताय: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: हिरण्यहस्त
• Form: Masculine, Dative, Singular

• गतः: went / having gone
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम्
• Form: क्त, Masculine, Nominative, Singular, Active (past participle used predicatively)

• लोकान्: worlds/realms
• लोकान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोक
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• देवैः: by the gods
• देवैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: देव
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• अभिष्टतान्: praised/approved/worshipped
• अभिष्टतान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अभिष्टत
• Form: क्त, Masculine, Accusative, Plural, Passive (past participle)

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vyāsa
• Madirāśva
• Hiraṇyahasta
• Madirāśva's daughter (unnamed)
• Devas
• Lokas (praised realms)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse presents a dharmic ideal: when a ruler-sage performs righteous acts—especially the socially and ritually weighty act of giving a daughter in marriage in accordance with dharma—such conduct generates merit leading to exalted realms praised even by the gods.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vyāsa recounts that the royal sage Madirāśva gave his beautiful daughter to Hiraṇyahasta (as a bride) and, as a result of his righteous life and deed, departed to divine-praised worlds.