Shloka 28

Adhyāya 32: Tāpasānāṃ Darśanaṃ — Ascetics Seek to Identify the Pāṇḍavas

Devanagari script

इष्टबान्धवसंयोगमनायासमनामयम्‌ | यश्चैतच्छावयेद्‌ विद्वान्‌ विदुषो धर्मवित्तम:

Transliteration

iṣṭabāndhavasaṃyogam anāyāsam anāmayam | yaś caitac chāvayed vidvān viduṣo dharmavittamaḥ ||

Translation

આ (વર્ણન) ઇષ્ટ બાંધવો સાથે અનાયાસ અને નિરામય સંયોગ કરાવે છે. અને જે વિદ્વાન તેને પાઠ કરાવીને સંભળાવે છે—ધર્મજ્ઞ તે વિદ્વાન—વિદ્વાનોમાં શ્રેષ્ઠ બને છે.

Word by Word

इष्टबान्धवसंयोगम्union/association with dear kinsmen

अनायासम्effortless, without trouble

अनामयम्free from disease/sorrow

यःwho

चand

एतत्this (teaching/statement)

श्रावयेत्should cause to hear / should recite to (others)

विद्वान्a learned man

विदुषःof a learned man / of the wise

धर्मवित्तमःbest knower of dharma

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse functions as a phalaśruti: it praises the benefit of having this passage recited/heard—promising wholesome well-being (freedom from hardship and affliction) and affirming that the promoter of such recitation is regarded as foremost among dharma-knowing scholars.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana concludes a section with a commendatory statement about the spiritual and ethical value of listening to or arranging the recitation of the account, highlighting its auspicious results and the esteem gained by one who propagates it.