Shloka 26

धन-राजधर्म संवादः

Discourse on Wealth and Royal Duty

Devanagari script

न चेद्धर्तव्यमन्यस्य कथं तद्धर्ममारभेत्‌ । एतावानेव वेदेषु निश्चय: कविभि: कृत:

Transliteration

na ced dhartavyam anyasya kathaṁ tad dharmam ārabhet | etāvān eva vedeṣu niścayaḥ kavibhiḥ kṛtaḥ ||

Translation

Arjuna said: “If one ought not to appropriate what belongs to another, then how could one even undertake that as ‘dharma’? This alone is the settled conclusion found in the Vedas, as the sages have determined.”

Word by Word

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

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

• धर्तव्यम्: to be borne/maintained; ought to be undertaken
• Type: Verb
• Root: धृ
• Form: तव्यत् (gerundive/obligative), neuter, nominative/accusative, singular, passive sense

• अन्यस्य: of another (person)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्य
• Form: masculine/neuter, genitive, singular

• कथम्: how?
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: कथम्

• तत्: that
• तत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• धर्मम्: dharma; duty
• धर्मम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: धर्म
• Form: masculine, accusative, singular

• आरभेत्: should begin/undertake
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-रभ्
• Form: विधिलिङ् (optative), present-system (optative sense), 3rd, singular, परस्मैपदम्

• एतावान्: this much; so much
• Type: Adjective
• Root: एतावत्
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

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

• वेदेषु: in the Vedas
• वेदेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वेद
• Form: masculine, locative, plural

• निश्चयः: certainty; settled conclusion
• निश्चयः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: निश्चय
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• कविभिः: by sages/poets
• कविभिः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कवि
• Form: masculine, instrumental, plural

• कृतः: made; established
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), masculine, nominative, singular

Speaker

अर्जुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Arjuna
• Vedas
• kavi (sages/seers)