Shloka 18

Devanagari script

एवमायुष्मतीभिस्तु प्रजाभिर्भरतर्षभ । इयं सागरपर्यन्ता समापूर्यत मेदिनी,भरतश्रेष्ठ! ऐसी व्यवस्था हो जानेसे समुद्रपर्यन्त यह सारी पृथ्वी दीर्घकालतक जीवित रहनेवाली प्रजाओंसे भर गयी

Transliteration

evam āyuṣmatībhiḥ tu prajābhiḥ bharatarṣabha | iyaṃ sāgaraparyantā samāpūryata medinī ||

Translation

वैशम्पायन बोले—भरतश्रेष्ठ! इस प्रकार दीर्घायु प्रजाओं से समुद्र-पर्यन्त यह सारी पृथ्वी चारों ओर से भर गई।

Word by Word

एवम्thus

आयुष्मतीभिःby long-lived (ones)

तुindeed/but

प्रजाभिःby the subjects/people

भरतर्षभO bull among the Bharatas

इयम्this

सागर-पर्यन्ताbounded by the ocean

समापूर्यतwas filled completely

मेदिनीthe earth

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Bharatarṣabha (addressed descendant of Bharata)

Medinī (the Earth)

Sāgara (the ocean/sea)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores a dharmic ideal of rulership: when proper order and governance are established, society becomes stable and flourishing, symbolized by long-lived subjects filling the land up to the ocean’s bounds.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana describes the outcome of an earlier arrangement or policy: the entire earth, conceived as ocean-bounded, becomes fully populated by prosperous, long-lived people—an image of widespread well-being and orderly expansion.