Shloka 112

Atithi-prāpti and the Brāhmaṇa’s Deliberation on Triadic Dharma (अतिथिप्राप्तिः धर्मत्रयविचारश्च)

Devanagari script

एतत्‌ ते सर्वमाख्यातं यन्मां त्वं परिपृच्छसि । एवं मेडकथयद्‌ राजन्‌ पुरा द्वैपायनो गुरु:

Transliteration

etad te sarvam ākhyātaṃ yan māṃ tvaṃ paripṛcchasi | evaṃ me ’dakathayad rājan purā dvaipāyano guruḥ ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “I have now told you everything you asked me. Long ago, O King, my teacher Dvaipāyana (Vyāsa) instructed me in just this manner.”

Word by Word

• एतत्: this (all this)
• एतत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• ते: to you
• ते: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Dative, Singular

• सर्वम्: all
• सर्वम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• आख्यातम्: told/declared
• आख्यातम्: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-ख्या
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• यत्: which/what
• यत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• माम्: me
• माम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Accusative, Singular

• त्वम्: you
• त्वम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Nominative, Singular

• परिपृच्छसि: you ask/inquire
• Type: Verb
• Root: परि-प्रच्छ्
• Form: Present (Lat), 2, Singular, Parasmaipada

• एवम्: thus/in this manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• मे: of me / to me (my)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Genitive, Singular

• एतत्: this (this very thing)
• एतत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• कथयत्: telling/saying
• कथयत्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: कथय्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• राजन्: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• पुरा: formerly/once
• पुरा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुरा

• द्वैपायनः: Dvaipayana (Vyasa)
• द्वैपायनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्वैपायन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• गुरुः: teacher/guru
• गुरुः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: गुरु
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Dvaipāyana (Vyāsa)
• the King (rājan)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse emphasizes the reliability of the teaching by grounding it in the guru–śiṣya lineage: what is narrated is not mere opinion but a faithfully transmitted instruction received from Vyāsa, establishing authority and continuity of dharmic knowledge.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana closes a response to the king’s inquiry, stating that he has answered fully and that the same teaching was earlier imparted to him by his teacher Dvaipāyana (Vyāsa), reinforcing the framed, traditional mode of narration in the Mahābhārata.