Shloka 49
Adhyaya 4 — Jaimini Meets the Dharmapakshis: Four Doubts on the Mahabharata and the Opening of Narayana Doctrine
तृतीया कर्म कुरुते प्रजापालनतत्परा ।
सत्त्वोद्रिक्ता तु सा ज्ञेया धर्मसंस्थानकारिणी ॥
tṛtīyā karma kurute prajāpālanatatparā / sattvodriktā tu sā jñeyā dharmasaṃsthānakāriṇī
ત્રીજી અવસ્થા પ્રજાના રક્ષણ અને શાસનમાં પરાયણ થઈ કર્મ કરે છે. તે સત્ત્વપ્રધાન તરીકે જાણીતી છે, જે ધર્મવ્યવસ્થાને સ્થાપે અને ધારણ કરે છે.
FAQs
Action aligned with sattva is characterized by public-spirited responsibility: protecting and sustaining the community (prajā) and stabilizing dharma as a lived social order. The verse valorizes duty performed for collective welfare rather than private gain.
Primarily aligns with 'Vaṃśānucarita' in the broad sense of normative conduct associated with rulers/protectors (rājadharma) rather than cosmological creation; it is ethical instruction embedded within narrative/doctrinal exposition, not a direct Sarga/Pratisarga/Manvantara account in this verse.
Sattva’s predominance symbolizes lucidity and harmonizing power: the capacity to hold beings together through dharma-saṃsthāna (right structure). Esoterically, 'prajāpālana' points to the inner governance of the senses and mind—protecting the 'subjects' (vṛttis) by establishing dharmic order within.