Shloka 35

दमयन्त्याः अरण्यविहारः — Damayantī’s Passage through the Wilderness

Devanagari script

यदि चायमभिप्रायस्तव ज्ञातीन्‌ व्रजेदिति । सहितावेव गच्छावो विदर्भान्‌ यदि मन्यसे,यदि आपका यह अभिप्राय हो कि दमयन्ती अपने बन्धु-बान्धवोंके यहाँ चली जाय तो आपकी सम्मति हो तो हम दोनों साथ ही विदर्भदेशको चलें

Transliteration

yadi cāyam abhiprāyas tava jñātīn vrajed iti | sahitāv eva gacchāvo vidarbhān yadi manyase ||

Translation

Nala said: “If this is your intention—that Damayantī should go to her kinsfolk—then, if you approve, let us both go together to Vidarbha.”

Word by Word

यदिif

चand

अयम्this

अभिप्रायःintention, plan

तवof you, your

ज्ञातीन्kinsmen, relatives

व्रजेत्should go

इतिthus (quotative)

सहितौtogether (the two of us)

एवindeed, just

गच्छावःlet us two go

विदर्भान्to Vidarbha (country/people)

यदिif

मन्यसेyou think, you consider

Speaker

नल उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nala

Damayantī

Vidarbha

jñāti (kinsfolk/relatives)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes