Shloka 5

Devanagari script

सर्वमेतदतिक्रम्य विचार्य च पुन: पुनः । क्षमं यन्नो महाबाहो तद्‌ ब्रवीह्विचारयन्‌,“महाबाहो! इन सब विचारोंको लाँधकर स्वयं ही इस विषयपर बारंबार विचार करके हमारे लिये जो उचित हो, उसे नि:संकोच कहिये'

Transliteration

sarvam etad atikramya vicārya ca punaḥ punaḥ | kṣamaṁ yan no mahābāho tad bravīh vicārayan ||

Translation

Waiśampāyana berkata: “Wahai yang berlengan perkasa, sisihkanlah semua pertimbangan ini, renungkan sendiri perkara ini berulang-ulang; lalu, setelah menimbang dengan saksama, katakan kepada kami apa yang patut bagi kami.”

Word by Word

सर्वम्all (this)

एतत्this

अतिक्रम्यhaving overstepped / having set aside

विचार्यhaving considered

चand

पुनःagain

क्षमम्proper / suitable

यत्which (that)

नःfor us

महाबाहोO mighty-armed one

तत्that

ब्रवीहिtell / speak

विचारयन्considering / reflecting

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Mahābāhu (epithet; addressee not explicitly named in this verse)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Ethically weighty choices should be made through repeated, independent reflection, and then expressed plainly as what is truly fitting (kṣama) for those concerned—rather than being driven by a tangle of competing arguments or pressures.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Udyoga Parva’s counsel-driven setting, the speaker frames a request to a heroic figure addressed as “mahābāho”: after setting aside the many points already raised, he should think the matter over again and again and state what course is appropriate for ‘us’.