Shloka 55

Devanagari script

न चेदेवं प्राप्तकालं वचो मे मोहाविष्ट: प्रतिपत्स्यस्यबुद्धया । तप्स्यस्यन्ते एतदन्ता: स्थ सर्वे सत्यामेतां भारतीमीरयामि,“दुर्योधन! यदि तुम मोहवश अपनी मूर्खताके कारण मेरे इस समयोचित वचनको नहीं मानोगे तो अन्तमें पछताओगे और इस युद्धमें ही तुम सब लोगोंका अन्त हो जायगा। यह मैं तुमसे सच्ची बात कह रहा हूँ"

Transliteration

na ced evaṃ prāptakālaṃ vaco me mohāviṣṭaḥ pratipatsyasi buddhyā | tapsyasy ante etad-antāḥ stha sarve satyām etāṃ bhāratīm īrayāmi |

Translation

સંજય બોલ્યો—“દુર્યોધન! મોહગ્રસ્ત થઈ જો તું બુદ્ધિપૂર્વક મારા આ સમયોચિત વચનને સ્વીકારશે નહીં, તો અંતે પસ્તાવાની આગમાં બળશે. તમે બધા વિનાશના કિનારે ઊભા છો; આ યુદ્ધ જ તમારો અંત લાવશે. હું તને નિર્ભેળ સત્ય કહું છું.”

Word by Word

{'na cet''if not

if you do not', 'evam''thus

in this manner', 'prāptakālam''timely

appropriate to the moment', 'vacaḥ''speech

words', 'me''my', 'mohāviṣṭaḥ': 'overcome by delusion

bewildered', 'pratipatsyasi''you will accept/understand

you will follow', 'buddhyā''with understanding

with discernment', 'tapsyasi''you will suffer

you will burn (with grief/remorse)', 'ante''at the end

finally', 'etad-antāḥ''having this as the end

ending in this (destruction)', 'stha''you are

you stand (2nd pl. of √sthā)', 'sarve''all (of you)', 'satyām': 'truthfully

in truth', 'bhāratīm''speech

utterance (alsorelating to the Bhāratas)', 'īrayāmi': 'I utter

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Duryodhana

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Timely, truthful counsel should be received with discernment; delusion (moha) that rejects wise advice leads to inevitable ruin and later remorse.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya delivers a grave warning to Duryodhana: if he refuses this moment-appropriate advice due to delusion, the Kauravas will meet destruction in the war and regret it at the end.