Shloka 18

ब्रह्मघोष-प्रवर्तनम्, अनध्याय-नियमः, वायु-मार्ग-वर्णनम्

Restoring Vedic Recitation, the Anadhyaya Rule, and the Taxonomy of Winds

Devanagari script

ये त्वन्यथैव पश्यन्ति न सम्यक्‌ तेषु दर्शनम्‌ ते व्यक्त निरयं घोरं प्रविशन्ति पुन: पुन:

Transliteration

ye tv anyathaiva paśyanti na samyak teṣu darśanam | te vyakta-nirayaṃ ghoraṃ praviśanti punaḥ punaḥ ||

Translation

But those who persist in seeing things otherwise—whose vision regarding these truths is not rightly aligned—repeatedly enter a dreadful, manifest hell. The verse warns that distorted understanding and willful misperception of dharma and reality lead to recurring suffering and moral downfall.

Word by Word

• ये: who (those who)
• ये: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• अन्यथा: otherwise, wrongly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अन्यथा

• एव: indeed, just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• पश्यन्ति: see
• Type: Verb
• Root: पश्
• Form: Present, Indicative, Parasmaipada, Third, Plural

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• सम्यक्: properly, correctly
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सम्यक्

• तेषु: in them/among them
• तेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Locative, Plural

• दर्शनम्: vision, right view
• दर्शनम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: दर्शन
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• ते: they
• ते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• व्यक्तम्: manifest, evident
• Type: Adjective
• Root: व्यक्त
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• निरयम्: hell
• निरयम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: निरय
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• घोरम्: terrible
• Type: Adjective
• Root: घोर
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• प्रविशन्ति: enter
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + विश्
• Form: Present, Indicative, Parasmaipada, Third, Plural

• पुनः: again
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुनः

• पुनः: again
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुनः

Speaker

याज़्वल्क्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

• याज्ञवल्क्य (Yājñavalkya)
• निरय (Niraya/hell)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Right understanding (samyak-darśana) is ethically decisive: those who knowingly adopt a distorted view of truth and dharma incur repeated suffering, described here as repeatedly entering a dreadful, manifest hell.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and liberation-oriented wisdom, Yājñavalkya states a warning: people who misperceive the relevant truths and do not see correctly fall again and again into severe states of torment (niraya), emphasizing the karmic cost of wrong view.