Shloka 41

Virāṭa-parva Adhyāya 21 — Kīcaka’s clandestine approach and Bhīma’s covert intervention (नर्तनागारे कीचकवध-प्रसङ्गः)

Devanagari script

प्रजायां रक्ष्यमाणायामात्मा भवति रक्षित: । आत्मा हि जायते तस्‍यां तेन जायां विदुर्बुधा:,संतानकी रक्षा होनेपर अपना आत्मा सुरक्षित होता है। आत्मा ही पत्नीके गर्भसे पुत्ररूपमें जन्म लेता है। इसीलिये विद्वान्‌ पुरुष पत्नीको “जाया” कहते हैं

Transliteration

prajāyāṃ rakṣyamāṇāyām ātmā bhavati rakṣitaḥ | ātmā hi jāyate tasyāṃ tena jāyāṃ vidur budhāḥ ||

Translation

Bhīmasena said: “When one’s progeny is protected, one’s very self is protected. For the self, as it were, is born again through her—through the wife—in the form of a son. Therefore the wise call a wife ‘jāyā’, ‘she through whom one is born’.”

Word by Word

प्रजायाम्in/with regard to offspring (progeny)

रक्ष्यमाणायाम्being protected

आत्माself

भवतिbecomes/is

रक्षितःprotected

आत्माself

हिindeed/for

जायतेis born

तस्याम्in her

तेनtherefore/by that

जायाम्wife

विदुःknow/call

बुधाःthe wise (men)

Speaker

भीमसेन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīmasena

jāyā (wife)

prajā (progeny/offspring)

ātman (self)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes