Shloka 56

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

Chapter 29

Devanagari script

“श्रीरामचन्द्रजी जब राज्यका शासन करते थे, उन दिनों हजार वर्षतक जीनेवाली स्त्रियाँ और सहस्रों वर्षतक जीवित रहनेवाले पुरुष थे। किसीको कोई रोग नहीं सताता था, सभीके सारे मनोरथ सिद्ध होते थे ।। नान्यो<न्येन विवादो<भूत्‌ सत्रीणामपि कुतो नृणाम्‌ । धर्मनित्या: प्रजाश्वासन्‌ रामे राज्यं प्रशासति

Transliteration

śrīrāmacandrajī yadā rājyasya śāsanaṃ karoti sma, tadā striyaḥ sahasra-varṣa-jīvinaḥ, puruṣāś ca sahasra-sahasra-varṣa-jīvinaḥ āsan. na kaścid rogo kaṃcid bādhate sma; sarveṣāṃ sarve manorathāḥ siddhā bhavanti sma. nānyo'nyena vivādo 'bhūt strīṇām api kuto nṛṇām. dharma-nityāḥ prajāśvāsan rāme rājyaṃ praśāsati.

Translation

Vāyu said: When Śrī Rāmacandra ruled the kingdom, women lived for a thousand years and men for many thousands. No disease afflicted anyone, and every person’s wishes were fulfilled. There were no quarrels among one another—how much less among men, if not even among women. The people lived steadily in dharma, while Rāma governed the realm.

Word by Word

• {'śrī-rāmacandra': 'Rāma, the ideal king (honorific śrī-)', 'rājya': 'kingdom

• realm', 'śāsana / praśāsati': 'rule

• to govern/administer', 'tadā': 'then

• at that time', 'striyaḥ': 'women', 'puruṣāḥ': 'men', 'sahasra-varṣa-jīvin': 'living for a thousand years

• long-lived', 'sahasra-sahasra-varṣa-jīvin': 'living for many thousands of years', 'roga': 'disease

• illness', 'bādhate': 'afflicts

• oppresses', 'sarve': 'all', 'manoratha': 'wish

• aspiration', 'siddha': 'fulfilled

• accomplished', "nānyo'nyena": 'not with one another

• not mutually', 'vivāda': 'dispute

• quarrel', 'kutaḥ': 'how much less?

• whence?', 'nṛṇām': 'of men

• of human beings', 'dharma-nitya': 'steadfast in dharma

• regularly devoted to righteousness', 'prajā': 'subjects

• people', 'āsvāsan': 'lived at ease

• were reassured/comforted', 'rāme (locative)': 'when/while Rāma (was ruling)'}

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyudeva (Wind-god)
• Śrī Rāmacandra (Rāma)
• rājya (the kingdom/realm)
• prajā (the subjects/people)
• striyaḥ (women)
• puruṣāḥ / nṛṇām (men)