Shloka 46

अव्यक्त-मानस-सृष्टिवादः

Doctrine of Creation from the Unmanifest ‘Mānasa’

Devanagari script

यच्च कामसुखं लोके यच्च दिव्यं महत्‌ सुखम्‌ | तृष्णाक्षयसुखस्यैते नाहत: षोडशीं कलाम्‌

Transliteration

yacca kāmasukhaṁ loke yacca divyaṁ mahat sukham | tṛṣṇākṣayasukhasyaite nāhataḥ ṣoḍaśīṁ kalām ||

Translation

Le brāhmane dit : Tout plaisir des jouissances des sens en ce monde, et tout grand plaisir céleste dans l’autre—l’un et l’autre n’égalent pas même le seizième de la félicité qui naît de l’extinction de la soif du désir.

Word by Word

• यत्: whatever (that which)
• यत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• काम-सुखम्: pleasure of desire/sensual pleasure
• काम-सुखम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: कामसुख
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• लोके: in the world
• लोके: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोक
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• यत्: whatever (that which)
• यत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• दिव्यम्: heavenly, divine
• दिव्यम्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दिव्य
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• महत्: great
• महत्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महत्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• सुखम्: happiness, pleasure
• सुखम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुख
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• तृष्णा-क्षय-सुखस्य: of the happiness arising from the destruction of craving
• Type: Noun
• Root: तृष्णाक्षयसुख
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• एते: these two
• एते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Dual

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• आहतः: reaches/attains (lit. is struck up to)
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-हन्
• Form: kta (past passive participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• षोडशीम्: the sixteenth
• षोडशीम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: षोडशी
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• कलाम्: part, fraction (digit/portion)
• कलाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: कला
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• ब्राह्मण (Brāhmaṇa, speaker)
• लोक (the world)
• दिव्य/स्वर्ग (the heavenly realm, implied)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Worldly and even heavenly pleasures are minor compared to the peace and joy that come from ending craving; liberation-oriented happiness is qualitatively superior because it is not dependent on external objects and does not renew bondage.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on peace and liberation, a Brāhmaṇa speaker contrasts ordinary sense-pleasures and celestial enjoyments with the higher happiness of tṛṣṇākṣaya (the fading away of thirst), urging an inward ethical turn toward detachment.