Shloka 256

Devanagari script

विद्यते न भयं चापि परलोकान्ममानघा: । “इसमें संदेह नहीं कि मैं आपलोगोंके दर्शनमात्रसे पवित्र हो गया। निष्पाप महर्षियो! अब मुझे परलोकसे कोई भय नहीं है

Transliteration

vidyate na bhayaṃ cāpi paralokān mamānaghāḥ |

Translation

Dijo Vaiśaṃpāyana: «Oh sabios sin mancha, no temo en absoluto el más allá. En verdad, con solo contemplaros he quedado purificado; por ello no hay duda de que la otra vida ya no encierra terror para mí.»

Word by Word

विद्यतेexists / is found

नnot

भयम्fear

चand

अपिalso / even

परलोकात्from the other world / from the hereafter

ममof me / my

अनघाःO sinless ones

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

sinless sages (ṛṣayaḥ)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Association with the righteous—especially the direct sight (darśana) of sinless sages—is portrayed as spiritually purifying and as removing anxiety about one’s fate after death (paraloka).

What is happening in the narrative?

In Vaiśaṃpāyana’s narration, a speaker expresses confidence about the hereafter, declaring that meeting and beholding the sages has purified him and dispelled any fear of the next world.