Shloka 49

Kṛṣṇa’s Departure, Auspicious Omens, and the Opening of the Uttaṅka Dialogue (कृष्णप्रयाण-निमित्त-उत्तङ्कसंवाद-प्रारम्भः)

Devanagari script

स गच्छ रत्नान्यादाय विविधानि वसूनि च । यच्चाप्यन्यन्मनोज्ञं ते तदप्यादत्स्व सात्वत,यदुनन्दन केशव! ये तरह-तरहके रत्न और धन प्रस्तुत हैं। इन्हें तथा दूसरी-दूसरी वस्तुएँ जो आपको पसंद हों लेकर यात्रा कीजिये। वीरवर! आपके प्रसादसे ही इस सम्पूर्ण भूमण्डलका राज्य हमारे हाथमें आया है और हमारे शत्रु भी मारे गये

Transliteration

sa gaccha ratnāny ādāya vividhāni vasūni ca | yac cāpy anyan mano-jñaṃ te tad apy ādatsva sātvata yadu-nandana keśava |

Translation

Yudhiṣṭhira said: “Go forth, taking with you the many kinds of jewels and treasures. And whatever else is pleasing to you—take that as well, O Sātvata, O Keśava, delight of the Yadus. By your grace alone we have obtained sovereignty over this entire earth, and our enemies have been slain.”

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'गच्छ (gaccha)', 'meaning': 'go

• depart'}, {'term': 'रत्नानि (ratnāni)', 'meaning': 'jewels

• precious gems'}, {'term': 'आदाय (ādāya)', 'meaning': 'having taken

• taking along'}, {'term': 'विविधानि (vividhāni)', 'meaning': 'various

• manifold'}, {'term': 'वसूनि (vasūni)', 'meaning': 'wealth

• treasures'}, {'term': 'मनोज्ञम् (mano-jñam)', 'meaning': 'pleasing

• delightful'}, {'term': 'ते (te)', 'meaning': 'to you

• your'}, {'term': 'तदपि (tad api)', 'meaning': 'that too

• even that'}, {'term': 'आदत्स्व (ādatsva)', 'meaning': 'take (for yourself)

• accept'}, {'term': 'सात्वत (sātvata)', 'meaning': 'O Sātvata

• epithet of Kṛṣṇa (of the Sātvata/Vṛṣṇi line)'}, {'term': 'यदुनन्दन (yadu-nandana)', 'meaning': 'delight of the Yadus

• Kṛṣṇa'}, {'term': 'केशव (keśava)', 'meaning': 'Keśava

• epithet of Kṛṣṇa'}, {'term': 'प्रसाद (prasāda)', 'meaning': 'grace

• benevolence'}, {'term': 'भूमण्डल (bhū-maṇḍala)', 'meaning': 'the circle of the earth

• the whole earth'}, {'term': 'राज्य (rājya)', 'meaning': 'kingship

• rule'}, {'term': 'शत्रवः (śatravaḥ)', 'meaning': 'enemies'}, {'term': 'हताः (hatāḥ)', 'meaning': 'slain

Speaker

युधिषछ्िर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• युधिष्ठिर (Yudhiṣṭhira)
• केशव / कृष्ण (Keśava/Kṛṣṇa)
• सात्वत (Sātvata)
• यदुनन्दन (Yadu-nandana)
• रत्नानि (jewels)
• वसूनि (treasures/wealth)
• भूमण्डल (the earth/realm)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse foregrounds dharmic gratitude and humility in power: Yudhiṣṭhira attributes political success and the defeat of enemies not to personal prowess but to Kṛṣṇa’s grace, and expresses that gratitude through generous offering—an ethical model of rulership that recognizes higher guidance and repays benefaction.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Ashvamedhika context after the great war, Yudhiṣṭhira addresses Kṛṣṇa, urging him to depart with assorted jewels and wealth and to take anything else he finds pleasing, while acknowledging that the Pandavas’ sovereignty over the earth and the fall of their foes came through Kṛṣṇa’s favor.