Shloka 15

नारदेन दिव्यसभाः कथितुं प्रतिज्ञा

Nārada’s Prelude to Describing the Divine Assemblies

Devanagari script

नारदं प्रत्युवाचेदं धर्मराजो महामना: । सभा: कथय ता: सर्वा: श्रोतुमिच्छामहे वयम्‌

Transliteration

nāradaṃ pratyuvācedaṃ dharmarājo mahāmanāḥ | sabhāḥ kathaya tāḥ sarvāḥ śrotum icchāmahe vayam ||

Translation

नारदजी के ऐसा कहने पर महामनस्वी धर्मराज युधिष्ठिर ने भाइयों तथा श्रेष्ठ ब्राह्मणों के साथ हाथ जोड़कर कहा— “महर्षे! हम सभी दिव्य सभाओं का वर्णन सुनना चाहते हैं। आप उनके विषय में सब बातें बताइए।”

Word by Word

• {'nāradam': 'Nārada (the sage), accusative singular', 'pratyuvāca': 'replied

• spoke in response', 'idam': 'this (statement)', 'dharmarājaḥ': 'the king of dharma

• epithet of Yudhiṣṭhira', 'mahāmanāḥ': 'great-souled, noble-minded', 'sabhāḥ': 'assembly-halls

• royal/celestial courts (plural)', 'kathaya': 'tell, narrate (imperative)', 'tāḥ': 'those (feminine plural, referring to sabhāḥ)', 'sarvāḥ': 'all (of them)', 'śrotum': 'to hear (infinitive)', 'icchāmahe': 'we desire, we wish', 'vayam': 'we'}

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Nārada
• Dharmarāja (Yudhiṣṭhira)
• Sabhāḥ (divine assembly-halls)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A dhārmic ruler seeks knowledge through respectful inquiry: Yudhiṣṭhira, embodying restraint and humility, requests a complete account from a sage, showing that governance and ethical life are strengthened by listening to authoritative wisdom.

What is happening in the narrative?

After Nārada’s discourse, Yudhiṣṭhira responds and asks him to narrate all the divine assembly-halls (sabhāḥ). The scene sets up a descriptive account of celestial courts and their splendor, framed as a sage-to-king instruction.