Shloka 10

Devanagari script

दिष्ट्या ते भरतश्रेष्ठ समाप्तो5यं महाक्रतु: । हतेषु युधि पार्थेषु राजसूये तथा त्वया

Transliteration

diṣṭyā te bharataśreṣṭha samāpto ’yaṃ mahākratuḥ | hateṣu yudhi pārtheṣu rājasūye tathā tvayā ||

Translation

Vaiśaṃpāyana said: “By good fortune, O best of the Bharatas, this great sacrificial rite has been brought to completion by you—just as the Rājasūya was completed—after the Pārthas had been slain in battle.”

Word by Word

• दिष्ट्या: fortunately; by good luck
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: दिष्टि
• Form: Avyaya (used adverbially; originally instrumental singular of दिष्टि)

• ते: to you
• ते: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Masculine/Feminine/Neuter, dative singular

• भरतश्रेष्ठ: O best of the Bharatas
• Type: Noun (vocative address)
• Root: भरत-श्रेष्ठ
• Form: Masculine, vocative singular

• समाप्तः: completed; finished
• Type: Adjective (past passive participle)
• Root: समाप्त
• Form: Masculine, nominative singular

• अयम्: this
• अयम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Masculine, nominative singular

• महाक्रतुः: great sacrifice
• महाक्रतुः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाक्रतु
• Form: Masculine, nominative singular

• हतेषु: when (they were) slain; among the slain
• हतेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective (past passive participle)
• Root: हत
• Form: Masculine, locative plural

• युधि: in battle
• युधि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: युध्
• Form: Feminine, locative singular

• पार्थेषु: among the sons of Pṛthā (the Pāṇḍavas)
• पार्थेषु: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पार्थ
• Form: Masculine, locative plural

• राजसूये: in the Rājasūya (sacrifice)
• राजसूये: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजसूय
• Form: Masculine, locative singular

• तथा: thus; so; likewise
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा
• Form: Avyaya

• त्वया: by you
• त्वया: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Masculine/Feminine/Neuter, instrumental singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśaṃpāyana
• Bharata (dynastic reference)
• Pārthas (Pāṇḍavas)
• Mahākratu (great sacrifice)
• Rājasūya

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse juxtaposes ritual success with the grim cost of violence: even a ‘great sacrifice’ or royal rite may be declared ‘completed,’ yet it is framed against the backdrop of slain kinsmen. It invites ethical reflection on how power, victory, and ritual legitimacy can be entangled with destructive outcomes, and how ‘good fortune’ (diṣṭi) can be morally ambiguous when achieved through bloodshed.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśaṃpāyana addresses a Bharata king, stating that a major sacrificial undertaking has been successfully concluded by him, likening it to the completion of a Rājasūya. The statement is pointedly conditioned by the fact that the Pārthas have been killed in battle, suggesting the rite’s completion is connected to (or made possible by) the elimination of rivals.