Shloka 73

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

Devanagari script

तमुवाचाथ सावित्री रजनी व्यवगाहते । श्वस्ते सर्व यथावृत्तमाख्यास्यामि नृपात्मज,तब सावित्री उनसे बोली--राजकुमार! रात बढ़ती जा रही है। कल सबेरे मैं आपसे सब बातें ठीक-ठीक बताऊँगी

Transliteration

tam uvāca atha sāvitrī rajanī vyavagāhate | śvas te sarva-yathāvṛttam ākhyāsyāmi nṛpātmaja ||

Translation

Then Sāvitrī said to him: “O prince, the night is passing on. Tomorrow morning I shall recount to you, exactly as it happened, everything in full.”

Word by Word

• तम्: him
• तम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• उवाच: said/spoke
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: Perfect (Paroksha-bhuta), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• अथ: then
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अथ

• सावित्री: Savitri
• सावित्री: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: सावित्री
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• रजनी: night
• रजनी: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: रजनी
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• व्यवगाहते: is advancing/deepening
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि-अव-गाह्
• Form: Present, 3rd, Singular, Atmanepada

• श्वः: tomorrow
• श्वः: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: श्वस्/श्वः

• ते: to you
• ते: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Dative, Singular

• सर्वम्: everything
• सर्वम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• यथा-वृत्तम्: as it happened / exactly as occurred
• यथा-वृत्तम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: यथा-वृत्त
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• आख्यास्यामि: I will tell/narrate
• Type: Verb
• Root: आ-ख्या
• Form: Simple Future (Lṛṭ), 1st, Singular, Parasmaipada

• नृप-आत्मज: O prince (son of a king)
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृप + आत्मज
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

यम उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sāvitrī
• nṛpātmaja (the prince)