Shloka 4

Devanagari script

वैशम्पायन उवाच यदर्थ शार्कईकानग्निर्न ददाह तथागते । तत्‌ ते सर्व प्रवक्ष्यामि यथाभूतमरिंदम,वैशम्पायनजी कहते हैं--शत्रुदमन जनमेजय! वैसे भयंकर अग्निकाण्डमें भी अग्निदेवने जिस कारणसे शाडूर्गकोंको दग्ध नहीं किया और जिस प्रकार वह घटना घटित हुई, वह सब मैं तुम्हें बताता हूँ, सुनो

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca | yadarthaṃ śārkāikān agnir na dadāha tathāgate | tat te sarvaṃ pravakṣyāmi yathābhūtam ariṃdama ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana said: “O subduer of foes, I shall tell you in full the true reason why, even when that dreadful conflagration had come to pass, Agni did not burn the Śārkāikas, and how exactly that event unfolded. Listen.”

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'vaiśampāyana uvāca', 'definition': 'Vaiśampāyana said (narrator’s speech marker).'}, {'term': 'yadartham', 'definition': 'for what reason

• on account of which cause.'}, {'term': 'agnīḥ / agniḥ', 'definition': 'Agni

• fire.'}, {'term': 'na dadāha', 'definition': 'did not burn

• did not consume.'}, {'term': 'tathāgate', 'definition': 'when it had thus occurred

• when it had come to pass (locative absolute sense).'}, {'term': 'tat te sarvam', 'definition': 'all that to you.'}, {'term': 'pravakṣyāmi', 'definition': 'I will explain

• I will narrate in detail.'}, {'term': 'yathābhūtam', 'definition': 'as it truly happened

• according to the facts.'}, {'term': 'ariṃdama', 'definition': 'subduer of enemies (epithet, here addressing Janamejaya).'}, {'term': 'śārkāikān', 'definition': 'the Śārkāikas (a named group/people

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Agni (Fire-god)
• Janamejaya
• Śārkāikas