Shloka 236

Mahāvasu’s Fall by Speech-Error and Release through Devotion (अज-विवादः वसोः शापः विमोचनं च)

Devanagari script

उपाध्यायं महाराज धर्ममेवानुचिन्तयन्‌ । महाराज! वेद-वेदांगोंकी विस्तृत व्याख्याके ज्ञाता शुकदेवजीने धर्मका विचार करके बृहस्पतिको अपना गुरु बनाया

Transliteration

upādhyāyaṃ mahārāja dharmam evānucintayan | mahārāja! veda-vedāṅgāṃkī vistṛta-vyākhyāke jñātā śukadevājīne dharmakā vicār karke bṛhaspatiko apanā guru banāyā

Translation

Bhīṣma dijo: «Oh gran rey, meditando únicamente en el dharma, eligió un maestro. Oh Mahārāja, Śukadeva—célebre por su vasto entendimiento y su exposición de los Vedas y de sus disciplinas auxiliares (Vedāṅga)—tras deliberar sobre la rectitud, aceptó a Bṛhaspati como su preceptor espiritual».

Word by Word

• upādhyāyam: the teacher (preceptor)
• upādhyāyam: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: upādhyāya
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• mahārāja: O great king
• Type: Noun
• Root: mahārāja
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• dharma: dharma, righteousness
• dharma: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: dharma
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• eva: indeed, only
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva

• anucintayan: reflecting upon, contemplating
• anucintayan: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: anu-cint
• Form: Śatṛ (present active participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Mahārāja (the king addressed, i.e., Yudhiṣṭhira in context)
• Śukadeva
• Bṛhaspati
• Veda
• Vedāṅga
• Upādhyāya (teacher/guru)