Shloka 20

Ajñātavāsa-saṅkalpaḥ — Yudhiṣṭhira’s Resolve and Dhaumya’s Exempla on Concealment

Devanagari script

यम उवाच निवर्त गच्छ सावित्रि कुरुष्वास्यौर्ध्वदेहिकम्‌ कृतं भर्तुस्त्वया5<नृण्यं यावद्‌ गम्यं गतं त्वया,यमराज बोले--सावित्री! अब तू लौट जा, सत्यवानका अन्त्येष्टि-संस्कार कर। अब तू पतिके ऋणसे उऋण हो गयी। पतिके पीछे तुझे जहाँतक आना चाहिये था, तू वहाँतक आ चुकी

Transliteration

yama uvāca—nivarta gaccha sāvitrī kuruṣvāsya ūrdhva-dehikam; kṛtaṁ bhartus tvayā ṛṇyaṁ yāvad gamyaṁ gataṁ tvayā.

Translation

Yama said: “Turn back, Sāvitrī. Perform for him the rites due after death. You have now discharged the debt you owed to your husband; you have accompanied him as far as a wife is bound to go.”

Word by Word

यमःYama

उवाचsaid

निवर्तturn back, return

गच्छgo

सावित्रिO Sāvitrī

कुरुष्वdo, perform

अस्यof this (one)

ऊर्ध्वदेहिकम्funeral/after-death rite

कृतम्done, accomplished

भर्तुःof (your) husband

त्वयाby you

ऋण्यम्debt/obligation

यावत्as far as, up to the point that

गम्यम्to be gone (to), fit to be followed

गतम्gone, reached

त्वयाby you

Speaker

यम उवाच

Characters & Entities

य

यम (Yama, Yamarāja)

स

सावित्री (Sāvitrī)

स

सत्यवान् (Satyavān, implied by 'asya' and the funeral rites)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes