Shloka 6

Udyoga Parva Adhyāya 92: Kṛṣṇasya sabhāpraveśaḥ

Krishna’s Entry into the Royal Assembly

Devanagari script

धर्मकार्य यतज्छक्त्या नो चेत्‌ प्राप्रोति मानव: । प्राप्तो भवति तत्‌ पुण्यमत्र मे नास्ति संशय:,मनुष्य यदि अपनी शक्तिभर किसी धर्म-कार्यको करनेका प्रयत्न करते हुए भी उसमें सफलता न प्राप्त कर सके, तो भी उसे उसका पुण्य तो अवश्य ही प्राप्त हो जाता है। इस विषयमें मुझे संदेह नहीं है

Transliteration

Vaiśaṃpāyana uvāca: dharmakārye yataś chaktyā no cet prāpnoti mānavaḥ | prāpto bhavati tat puṇyam atra me nāsti saṃśayaḥ ||

Translation

Vaiśaṃpāyana said: If a person, striving to the best of his ability in a righteous undertaking, does not attain success, even then the merit of that effort surely accrues to him. Of this, I have no doubt.

Word by Word

धर्मकार्येin a righteous duty/work

यतत्striving, making effort

शक्त्याwith (one's) ability

नnot

चेत्if

प्राप्नोतिattains, obtains

मानवःa man, human

प्राप्तःobtained, accrued

भवतिbecomes, is

तत्that

पुण्यम्merit, virtue (spiritual merit)

अत्रhere, in this matter

मेof me, to me

नnot

अस्तिis

संशयःdoubt

Speaker

(वैशग्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Sandhi Notes