Shloka 62
Ajñātavāsa-saṅkalpaḥ — Yudhiṣṭhira’s Resolve and Dhaumya’s Exempla on Concealment
सावित्र्यपि यमे याते भर्तारें प्रतिलभ्य च । जगाम तत्र यत्रास्या भर्तु: शावं कलेवरम्,यमराजके चले जानेपर सावित्री अपने पतिको पाकर उसी स्थानपर गयी; जहाँ पतिका मृत शरीर पड़ा था
sāvitrī api yame yāte bhartāraṃ pratilabhya ca | jagāma tatra yatrāsyā bhartuḥ śavaṃ kalevaram ||
Yama said: When Yama had departed, Sāvitrī, having regained her husband, went back to the very place where her husband’s lifeless body lay. The episode underscores steadfast wifely devotion and the power of dharma-guided resolve to restore what was lost.
यम उवाच
Educational Q&A
Dharma practiced with unwavering resolve—especially the ideal of pativratā devotion—has transformative power; steadfast righteousness and self-control can overcome even the finality of death in the narrative’s moral vision.
After Yama departs, Savitri has her husband restored to her; she then returns to the spot where his body had been lying, reuniting the revived husband with his physical form and resuming the human world’s order.