Shloka 12

Devanagari script

यदिदं धर्मराजेन पातितं नो जनार्दन | न हि नाशो३स्ति वार्ष्णेय कर्मणो: शुभपापयो:,अनघ! मैं समझती हूँ कि इन अनिन्द्य सुन्दरी अबलाओंने तथा मन्द बुद्धिवाली मैंने भी पूर्वजन्मोंमें कोई बड़ा भारी पाप किया है, जिसके फलस्वरूप धर्मराजने हमलोगोंको बड़ी भारी विपत्तिमें डाल दिया है। जनार्दन! वृष्णिनन्दन! जान पड़ता है कि किये हुए पुण्य और पापकर्मोंका उनके फलका उपभोग किये बिना नाश नहीं होता है

Transliteration

yad idaṁ dharmarājena pātitaṁ no janārdana | na hi nāśo 'sti vārṣṇeya karmaṇoḥ śubhapāpayoḥ, anagha ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “O Janārdana, this calamity into which we have been cast by Dharmarāja—O Vārṣṇeya, O sinless one—does not simply vanish. For deeds, whether meritorious or sinful, are not destroyed without their fruits being experienced.”

Word by Word

यत्that which

इदम्this

धर्मराजेनby Dharmaraja (Yudhiṣṭhira)

पातितम्caused to fall / brought down / cast

नःus

जनार्दनO Janārdana (Kṛṣṇa)

नnot

हिindeed / for

नाशःdestruction / cessation

अस्तिis

वार्ष्णेयO Vārṣṇeya (descendant of Vṛṣṇi)

कर्मणोःof the two actions (deeds)

शुभपापयोःof good and evil (merit and sin)

अनघO blameless one

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Dharmarāja (Yudhiṣṭhira)

Janārdana (Kṛṣṇa)

Vārṣṇeya (Kṛṣṇa)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse states the doctrine of karmic inevitability: actions—whether virtuous or sinful—do not perish without yielding their results; suffering is framed as the fruition of prior deeds rather than a random event.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Strī Parva’s lamentation context after the war, the speaker addresses Kṛṣṇa and reflects that the women’s present disaster, attributed to Dharmarāja’s actions, must be the unavoidable consequence of accumulated past karma.