Shloka 63

Devanagari script

तवैव कारणाद्‌ रक्षो निहतं तात संयुगे । मा क्रुधो भरतश्रेष्ठ माच शोके मन: कृथा:

Transliteration

tavaiva kāraṇād rakṣo nihataṃ tāta saṃyuge | mā krudho bharataśreṣṭha mā ca śoke manaḥ kṛthāḥ ||

Translation

Vyāsa said: “Because of you alone, dear son, that Rākṣasa has been slain in battle. Do not be angry, O best of the Bharatas, and do not let your mind sink into grief.”

Word by Word

तवof you/your

एवindeed/only

कारणात्because of/from the cause (i.e., due to)

रक्षःthe Rakshasa/demon

निहतम्slain/killed

तातdear one/son (vocative)

संयुगेin battle

माdo not

क्रुधःbe angry

भरतश्रेष्ठO best of the Bharatas

माdo not

चand/also

शोकेin grief

मनःmind

कृथाःmake/do

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vyāsa

Bharataśreṣṭha (addressed person, a Bharata prince)

Rākṣasa (unnamed)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Vyāsa urges emotional restraint in the midst of war: do not be consumed by anger or grief, and recognize causality without collapsing into lamentation—an ethical call to steadiness (dhairya) while facing the consequences of battle.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vyāsa addresses a Bharata hero, stating that an (unnamed) Rākṣasa has been killed in the fighting due to that hero’s agency, and he counsels him not to react with rage or sink into sorrow.