Shloka 9

Jaradkāru Encounters the Pitṛs

Jaratkāru-Pitṛdarśana

Devanagari script

शड्विंस्तव पिता सो5पि तथैवास्ते यतव्रत: । सो<पि राजा स्वनगरं प्रस्थितो गजसाह्दयम्‌,शंंगिन! संयमपूर्वक व्रतका पालन करनेवाले तुम्हारे पिता अभी उसी अवस्थामें बैठे हैं और वे राजा परीक्षित्‌ अपनी राजधानी हस्तिनापुरको चले गये हैं

Transliteration

ṣaḍviṁśas tava pitā so 'pi tathaivāste yatavrataḥ | so 'pi rājā svanagaraṁ prasthito gajasāhṛdayam, śaṅgin |

Translation

“Your father too—now in his twenty-sixth year—remains seated in the same disciplined state, steadfast in his vow. And the king as well has departed for his own city, Hastināpura, O bearer of the bow, having a heart as mighty as an elephant.”

Word by Word

षड्विंशत्twenty-six (years)

तवof you/your

पिताfather

सःhe

अपिalso/even

तथाthus/in the same way

एवindeed/just

आस्तेsits/remains

यतव्रतःone of restrained vows; self-controlled

सःhe

अपिalso

राजाking

स्वनगरम्his own city

प्रस्थितःdeparted/set out

गजसाह्वयम्called ‘Gaja’ (i.e., Hastinapura)

शृङ्गिन्O horned one! (vocative epithet)

Speaker

कृश उवाच

Characters & Entities

pitā (the father, unnamed here)

rājā (the king, identified in the Hindi gloss as Parīkṣit)

Hastināpura (implied by the Hindi gloss as the capital)

sva-nagara (the king’s own city)

śaṅga (bow, implied by śaṅgin)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes