Shloka 30

Devanagari script

युधिछिर उवाच एह्रीहि पार्थ बीभत्सो मां परिष्वज पाण्डव | वक्त व्यमुक्तो5स्मि हित॑ त्वया क्षान्तं च तन्मया,युधिष्ठिर बोले--कुन्तीनन्दन! बीभत्सो! आओ, आओ! पाण्डुकुमार! मेरे हृदयसे लग जाओ। तुमने तो मेरे प्रति कहनेयोग्य और हितकी ही बात कही है तथा मैंने उसके लिये क्षमा भी कर दी

Transliteration

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | ehi ehi pārtha bībhatsa māṃ pariṣvaja pāṇḍava | vākyaṃ vyamukto 'smi hitaṃ tvayā kṣāntaṃ ca tanmayā ||

Translation

Yudhiṣṭhira dit : «Viens, viens, ô Pārtha—ô Bībhatsu—embrasse-moi, ô fils de Pāṇḍu. Tu m’as dit ce qu’il convenait de dire, et véritablement pour mon bien ; et moi, pour ma part, je l’ai pardonné.»

Word by Word

• {'yudhiṣṭhira uvāca': 'Yudhiṣṭhira said', 'ehi ehi': 'come, come (an urgent, affectionate summons)', 'pārtha': 'son of Pṛthā (Kuntī)

• epithet of Arjuna', 'bībhatsa': '‘the one who recoils from the vile’

• epithet of Arjuna, suggesting moral revulsion toward adharma', 'mām': 'me', 'pariṣvaja': 'embrace (imperative of pari-√svaj)', 'pāṇḍava': 'descendant/son of Pāṇḍu

• here addressing Arjuna', 'vākyaṃ': 'speech

• words', 'vyamuktaḥ asmi': 'I have been addressed/spoken to (lit. ‘I have been spoken to’)', 'hitaṃ': 'beneficial

• for one’s good', 'tvayā': 'by you', 'kṣāntaṃ': 'forgiven

• borne patiently', 'ca': 'and', 'tat': 'that (i.e., those words/that matter)', 'mayā': 'by me'}

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Arjuna
• Kuntī
• Pāṇḍu

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even amid war, dharma is upheld through truthful counsel and the capacity to forgive. Yudhiṣṭhira recognizes Arjuna’s words as both appropriate and beneficial (hita), and he responds not with resentment but with kṣamā (forbearance/forgiveness), restoring fraternal unity.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira addresses Arjuna affectionately by his epithets (Pārtha, Bībhatsa) and asks him to embrace him. He acknowledges that Arjuna has spoken what needed to be said for Yudhiṣṭhira’s welfare, and declares that he has forgiven the matter—signaling reconciliation and renewed solidarity among the Pāṇḍavas.