Shloka 102

Śuka’s Guṇa-Transcendence and Vyāsa’s Consolation (शुकगति-वर्णनम्)

Devanagari script

यथैवात्र तथान्येषु ज्ञानज्ञेयेषु हेतवः

Transliteration

yathaivātra tathānyeṣu jñānajñeyeṣu hetavaḥ

Translation

Bhīṣma said: “Just as it is here, so too in other matters of knowledge and the knowable, the determining causes operate.”

Word by Word

• यथा: just as
• यथा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• एव: indeed/only
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• अत्र: here/in this case
• अत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अत्र

• तथा: so/likewise
• तथा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• अन्येषु: in other (cases/things)
• अन्येषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्य
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Locative, Plural

• ज्ञानज्ञेयेषु: in (matters of) knowledge and the knowable
• ज्ञानज्ञेयेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: ज्ञानज्ञेय
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Plural

• हेतवः: causes/reasons
• हेतवः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: हेतु
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

भीष्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Bhīṣma generalizes a principle: the same kind of causal reasoning used “here” should be applied across other domains of inquiry—both to knowledge (jñāna) and to what is known (jñeya).

What is happening in the narrative?

In the didactic setting of Śānti Parva, Bhīṣma continues instructing Yudhiṣṭhira by extending an argument from the immediate topic to broader philosophical questions, emphasizing consistent causal explanation.