Shloka 30

Sāvitrī’s Report and Nārada’s Prognosis (सावित्र्याख्यान—सत्यवान्-गुणवर्णनं तथा अल्पायुषः पूर्वसूचना)

Devanagari script

ततो वन॑ गते रामे राजा दशरथस्तदा । समयुज्यत देहस्य कालपर्यायधर्मणा,श्रीरामचन्द्रजीके वनमें चले जानेपर (उनके वियोगमें) राजा दशरथने शरीर त्याग दिया

Transliteration

tato vanaṁ gate rāme rājā daśarathas tadā | samayujyata dehasya kālaparyāyadharmaṇā ||

Translation

Alors, lorsque Rāma fut parti pour la forêt, le roi Daśaratha—accablé par la loi du Temps, qui fait tourner la vie selon son cycle—se sépara de son corps.

Word by Word

• ततः: then, thereafter
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ततः

• वने: in the forest
• वने: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वन
• Form: neuter, locative, singular

• गते: having gone
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम्
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), masculine, locative, singular

• रामे: when Rama (was) [gone]
• रामे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राम
• Form: masculine, locative, singular

• राजा: the king
• राजा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• दशरथः: Dasharatha
• दशरथः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: दशरथ
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• तदा: at that time
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

• समयुज्यत: became united (with), came to (a state)
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-युज्
• Form: लङ् (imperfect), Ātmanepada, third, singular

• देहस्य: of the body
• Type: Noun
• Root: देह
• Form: masculine, genitive, singular

• कालपर्यायधर्मणा: by the law/condition of time’s course (i.e., by the inevitability of time)
• कालपर्यायधर्मणा: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कालपर्यायधर्म
• Form: masculine, instrumental, singular

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Rāma
• Daśaratha
• forest (vana)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even the greatest are subject to Kāla (Time): embodied life follows an ordained course, and intense attachment and grief can precipitate collapse when one is separated from the righteous object of love.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mārkaṇḍeya recounts that after Rāma departed for forest-exile, King Daśaratha, unable to bear the separation, soon died—described as the body’s separation occurring according to the inevitable law of Time.