Shloka 23

धृतराष्ट्रस्य वंशोपदेशः

Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Dynastic Counsel on Legitimate Rule

Devanagari script

प्रजापति: प्रजा: सृष्टवा यथा संहरते तथा

Transliteration

prajāpatiḥ prajāḥ sṛṣṭvā yathā saṁharate tathā

Translation

Vidura said: “Just as the Lord of creatures, having brought beings into existence, later withdraws them again, so too does the world move by a law of creation and dissolution.”

Word by Word

• प्रजापतिः: Prajāpati (the Lord of creatures)
• प्रजापतिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रजापति
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रजाः: creatures, subjects
• प्रजाः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रजा
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Plural

• सृष्ट्वा: having created
• Type: Verb
• Root: सृज्
• Form: क्त्वा (absolutive/gerund), Parasmaipada (usage), prior action

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

• संहरते: withdraws/destroys (draws back)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सं-हृ
• Form: Present (Lat), Third, Singular, Ātmanepada

• तथा: so, in the same way
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

Speaker

विदुर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Prajāpati