Shloka 109

Devanagari script

आगतीौ स्व: पथा येन फलान्यवचितानि च । यथागतं शुभे गच्छ पन्थानं मा विचारय,यह वही मार्ग है जिससे हम दोनों आये थे और हमने फल चुने थे। शुभे! तुम जैसे आयी हो वैसे चली चलो। रास्तेका विचार न करो

Transliteration

āgatīau svaḥ pathā yena phalāny avacitāni ca | yathāgataṃ śubhe gaccha panthānaṃ mā vicāraya ||

Translation

Dijo Mārkaṇḍeya: «Por ese mismo sendero por el que vinimos ambos y por el que se recogieron los frutos, vuelve, oh afortunada, exactamente como llegaste. No te fatigues pensando en la ruta.»

Word by Word

• {'āgatīau': 'we two came/arrived (dual)', 'svaḥ pathā': 'by one’s own/that very path

• along the same route', 'yena': 'by which

• through which', 'phalāni': 'fruits', 'avacitāni': 'gathered, plucked, collected', 'ca': 'and', 'yathāgatam': 'as (you) came

• in the same manner as before', 'śubhe': 'O auspicious one (vocative

• address to a woman)', 'gaccha': 'go', 'panthānam': 'path, road, way', 'mā': 'do not', 'vicāraya': 'consider, deliberate, reflect upon'}

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mārkaṇḍeya
• śubhe (addressed woman)
• path (panthā)
• fruits (phalāni)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Follow the proven, safe course already known from experience; do not overthink the route when clear guidance and precedent exist.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mārkaṇḍeya instructs an addressed woman to return by the same path they previously used to come and gather fruits, reassuring her not to worry about choosing or analyzing the way.