Shloka 22

युधिष्ठिरस्य राज्याभिषेकः | Yudhiṣṭhira’s Royal Consecration

Devanagari script

दिष्ट्या गाण्डीवधन्वा च भीमसेनश्न्‌ पाण्डव: । त्वं चापि कुशली राजन माद्रीपुत्रो च पाण्डवी

Transliteration

diṣṭyā gāṇḍīvadhanvā ca bhīmasenaś ca pāṇḍavaḥ | tvaṃ cāpi kuśalī rājan mādrīputro ca pāṇḍavī ||

Translation

Dijo Vaiśampāyana: “Es en verdad por buena fortuna que Arjuna, portador del Gāṇḍīva, y Bhīmasena, el Pāṇḍava, han sobrevivido; y que tú también, oh rey, estás a salvo, junto con los hijos de Mādrī entre los Pāṇḍavas. Tenlo por gran bendición: tras vencer a los enemigos, todos habéis escapado ilesos de aquella guerra que aniquila a los héroes. Ahora, oh descendiente de Bharata, cumple con presteza los deberes que aún restan.”

Word by Word

• दिष्ट्या: fortunately; by good luck
• दिष्ट्या: Karana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: दिष्टि
• Form: Avyaya (instrumental sense: 'by good fortune')

• गाण्डीवधन्वा: the wielder of the Gāṇḍīva bow (Arjuna)
• गाण्डीवधन्वा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: गाण्डीवधन्वन्
• Form: Masculine, nominative, singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च
• Form: Avyaya

• भीमसेनः: Bhīmasena
• भीमसेनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भीमसेन
• Form: Masculine, nominative, singular

• पाण्डवः: the Pāṇḍava (son of Pāṇḍu)
• पाण्डवः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाण्डव
• Form: Masculine, nominative, singular

• त्वम्: you
• त्वम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Second person pronoun, nominative, singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च
• Form: Avyaya

• अपि: also
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि
• Form: Avyaya

• कुशली: safe; well; unharmed
• कुशली: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कुशलिन्
• Form: Masculine, nominative, singular

• राजन्: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, vocative, singular

• माद्रीपुत्रः: Mādrī's son (Nakula/Sahadeva)
• माद्रीपुत्रः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: माद्रीपुत्र
• Form: Masculine, nominative, singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च
• Form: Avyaya

• पाण्डवी: Pāṇḍavī (Draupadī / a Pāṇḍava lady)
• पाण्डवी: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाण्डवी
• Form: Feminine, nominative, singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Arjuna (Gāṇḍīvadhanvā)
• Gāṇḍīva
• Bhīmasena
• Pāṇḍavas
• King (Yudhiṣṭhira implied by address rājan)
• Mādrī
• Nakula
• Sahadeva
• Bharata lineage (Bhārata)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames survival after catastrophic war as a matter of great fortune and immediately redirects attention to dharma: the king must now complete the remaining obligations—governance, rites, reconciliation, and restoration—without delay.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana reports a consoling, forward-looking statement: Arjuna, Bhīma, the king, and Mādrī’s sons have all come through the war safely and victorious; therefore the Bhārata king should proceed quickly to the necessary post-war tasks.