Shloka 11

अध्याय २९४ — योगलक्षणम् तथा सांख्यपरिसंख्यानम्

Yoga Definition and Sāṃkhya Enumeration

Devanagari script

तासां दर्प: समभवत्‌ प्रजानां धर्मनाशन: । दर्पात्मनां ततः पश्चात्‌ क्रोधस्तासामजायत

Transliteration

tāsāṁ darpaḥ samabhavat prajānāṁ dharmanāśanaḥ | darpātmanāṁ tataḥ paścāt krodhas tāsām ajāyata ||

Translation

Parāśara dijo: «Entre aquel pueblo surgió la arrogancia, destructora del dharma. Y cuando sus mentes quedaron poseídas por la arrogancia, después brotó en ellos la ira».

Word by Word

• तासाम्: of those (women/they)
• तासाम्: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी, बहुवचन

• दर्पः: pride, arrogance
• दर्पः: कर्ता
• Type: Noun
• Root: दर्प (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• समभवत्: arose, came to be
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू (धातु)
• Form: लङ् (अनद्यतनभूत), प्रथम, एकवचन

• प्रजानाम्: of the creatures/subjects
• प्रजानाम्: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रजा (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी, बहुवचन

• धर्मनाशनः: destroyer of dharma
• धर्मनाशनः: कर्ता
• Type: Adjective
• Root: धर्मनाशन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• दर्पात्मनाम्: of those whose nature is pride
• दर्पात्मनाम्: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दर्पात्मन् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी, बहुवचन

• ततः: then, thereafter
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः (अव्यय)

• पश्चात्: afterwards
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पश्चात् (अव्यय)

• क्रोधः: anger
• क्रोधः: कर्ता
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्रोध (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• तासाम्: of those (women/they)
• तासाम्: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी, बहुवचन

• अजायत: was born, arose
• Type: Verb
• Root: जन् (धातु)
• Form: लङ् (अनद्यतनभूत), प्रथम, एकवचन

Speaker

पराशर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Parāśara
• prajāḥ (the people/subjects)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse presents a moral-psychological chain: pride (darpa) undermines dharma, and once pride dominates the mind, anger (krodha) naturally follows. Ethical decline is shown as beginning inwardly, in dispositions, before it appears outwardly in harmful actions.

What is happening in the narrative?

Parāśara is describing the degeneration of the people: arrogance first manifests among them and destroys their commitment to dharma; after pride takes root in their inner nature, anger arises as its consequence.