Shloka 38

Śoka-śamana: Kṛṣṇa’s Consolation and Nārada’s Exempla to Sṛñjaya

Chapter 29

Devanagari script

स चेन्ममार सृंजय चतुर्भद्रतरस्त्वया

Transliteration

sa cen mamāra sṛñjaya caturbhadrataras tvayā

Translation

Vāyu said: “If Sṛñjaya has indeed died, then you are the one who is fourfold more fortunate (or blessed) than he.”

Word by Word

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• चेत्: if
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: चेत्

• ममार: died / has died
• Type: Verb
• Root: मृ
• Form: Perfect (Liṭ), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• सृंजय: O Sṛñjaya
• Type: Noun
• Root: सृंजय
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• चतुर्भद्रतरः: one who is more auspicious in four ways / very highly fortunate
• चतुर्भद्रतरः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चतुर्भद्रतर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• त्वया: by you
• त्वया: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Masculine/Feminine (pronoun), Instrumental, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyudeva
• Sṛñjaya

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames death and loss through an ethical lens of comparative fortune: even in bereavement, one may be considered ‘more blessed’ depending on one’s situation, implying a counsel toward perspective and steadiness amid impermanence.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva addresses the listener and comments on the reported death of Sṛñjaya, asserting that if Sṛñjaya has died, the person being addressed is ‘fourfold more fortunate’—a consolatory or evaluative remark within a dialogue about human conditions and their outcomes.