Shloka 12

Jayadratha Approaches Draupadī in the Forest

Hospitality, Persuasion, and Reproach

Devanagari script

नोत्सहे जीवितुमहं त्वद्विहीनो नररषभ । प्रायोपविष्टस्तु नृप राज्ञां हास्यो भविष्यसि,नरश्रेष्ठ! तुमसे अलग होकर मैं जीवित नहीं रहना चाहता। राजन! आमरण अनशनके लिये बैठ जानेपर तुम समस्त राजाओंके उपहासपात्र हो जाओगे

Transliteration

notsahe jīvitum ahaṃ tvad-vihīno naraṛṣabha | prāyopaviṣṭas tu nṛpa rājñāṃ hāsyo bhaviṣyasi ||

Translation

Karna said: “I cannot bear to live separated from you, O bull among men. O king, if you sit down resolved on fasting unto death, you will become a subject of ridicule among the assembled rulers.”

Word by Word

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• उत्सहे: I am able / I dare
• Type: Verb
• Root: उत्सह्
• Form: Lat (present indicative), 1, singular, Parasmaipada

• जीवितुम्: to live
• Type: Verb
• Root: जीव्
• Form: Tumun (infinitive)

• अहम्: I
• अहम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अहम्
• Form: common, nominative, singular

• त्वत्-विहीनः: devoid of you / separated from you
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विहीन
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• नर-ऋषभ: O bull among men
• Type: Noun
• Root: ऋषभ
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• प्राय-उपविष्टः: having sat down for fasting unto death
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उपविष्ट
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• तु: but / indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• नृप: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृप
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• राज्ञाम्: of kings
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: masculine, genitive, plural

• हास्यः: laughable / an object of ridicule
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हास्य
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• भविष्यसि: you will become
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Lrt (simple future), 2, singular, Parasmaipada

• नर-श्रेष्ठ: O best of men
• Type: Noun
• Root: श्रेष्ठ
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

Speaker

कर्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Karna
• unnamed king addressed as nṛpa/naraṛṣabha (contextually a royal ally)