Shloka 11

Devanagari script

यो होवमविनीतेन रमते पुत्र नप्तृणा । अनुत्थानवता चापि दुर्विनीतेन दुर्धिया,सुखं नैवेह नामुत्र लभन्ते पुरुषाधमा: । बेटा! जो इस प्रकार विनयशून्य एवं अशिक्षित पौत्रसे हर्षको प्राप्त होता है तथा उद्योगरहित, दुर्विनीत एवं दुर्बुद्धि पुत्रसे सुख मानता है, उसका संतानोत्पादन व्यर्थ है; क्योंकि वे अयोग्य पुत्र-पौत्र पहले तो कर्म ही नहीं करते हैं और यदि करते हैं तो निन्दित कर्म ही करते हैं, इससे वे अधम मनुष्य न तो इस लोकमें सुख पाते हैं और न परलोकमें ही

Transliteration

yo hovam avinītena ramate putra naptṛṇā | anutthānavatā cāpi durvinītena durdhiyā | sukhaṃ naiveha nāmutra labhante puruṣādhamāḥ |

Translation

A man who takes delight in a son or grandson who is devoid of discipline and training—who is idle, ill-mannered, and of perverse understanding—finds no happiness either in this world or in the next. Such base men, attached to unworthy offspring, gain neither worldly well-being nor otherworldly good, for those descendants neither undertake proper duties nor, when they act, do they avoid blameworthy deeds.

Word by Word

यःwho

हindeed/for emphasis

अविनीतेनby/with an undisciplined (one)

रमतेrejoices/takes delight

पुत्रO son

नप्तृणाby/with a grandson

अनुत्थानवताby/with one lacking effort/enterprise

चand

अपिalso/even

दुर्विनीतेनby/with a badly disciplined (one)

दुर्धियाby/with bad intellect

सुखम्happiness

नnot

एवindeed/just

इहhere (in this world)

नnor/not

अमुत्रthere (in the other world)

लभन्तेobtain

पुरुषाधमाःthe lowest of men

Speaker

पुत्र उवाच

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Delighting in undisciplined, idle, and ill-trained offspring is self-defeating: without proper upbringing and right conduct, neither worldly prosperity nor spiritual merit arises, so happiness is lost both here and hereafter.

What is happening in the narrative?

In a didactic exchange within the Udyoga Parva, the speaker (the son) delivers a moral warning about lineage and responsibility, stressing that the worth of progeny lies in disciplined effort and righteous action, not merely in having descendants.