Shloka 1

Devanagari script

#::73:.8 #::3-...7 (0) हि २ 7 (कुण्डलाहरणपर्व) त्रिशततमो< ध्याय: सूर्यका स्वप्नमें कर्णको दर्शन देकर उसे इन्द्रको कुण्डल और कवच न देनेके लिये सचेत करना तथा कर्णका आग्रहपूर्वक कुण्डल और कवच देनेका ही निश्चय रखना जनमेजय उवाच यत्‌ तत्‌ तदा महद्‌ बहाँलल्‍लोमशो वाक्यमत्रवीत्‌ | इन्द्रस्य वचनादेव पाण्डुपुत्रं युधिष्ठिरम्‌

Transliteration

janamejaya uvāca | yat tat tadā mahad bahāllomaśo vākyam abravīt | indrasya vacanād eva pāṇḍuputraṃ yudhiṣṭhiram |

Translation

Janamejaya said: “What was that weighty statement which the sage Lomasha spoke on that occasion—spoken, as it were, on Indra’s instruction—concerning Yudhiṣṭhira, the son of Pāṇḍu?”

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'janamejaya uvāca', 'definition': 'Janamejaya said (narrative frame speaker)'}, {'term': 'yat tat', 'definition': 'that which

• what (introducing a query about a specific matter)'}, {'term': 'tadā', 'definition': 'then

• at that time'}, {'term': 'mahat', 'definition': 'great

• significant'}, {'term': 'vākya', 'definition': 'speech

• utterance'}, {'term': 'abravīt', 'definition': 'said

• spoke (aorist of √brū)'}, {'term': 'lomasha', 'definition': 'Lomasha (a sage

• narrator within the epic frame)'}, {'term': 'indrasya vacanāt', 'definition': 'from/according to Indra’s word

• at Indra’s behest'}, {'term': 'eva', 'definition': 'indeed

• emphatic particle'}, {'term': 'pāṇḍuputra', 'definition': 'son of Pāṇḍu (epithet of the Pāṇḍavas)'}, {'term': 'yudhiṣṭhira', 'definition': 'Yudhiṣṭhira (eldest Pāṇḍava

Speaker

जनमेजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Janamejaya
• Lomasha
• Indra
• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Pāṇḍu

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse foregrounds the ethical weight of counsel: significant speech (mahad vākya) is sought not as gossip but as guidance, and divine prompting (Indra’s word) is presented as a serious moral and strategic intervention within dharma-centered kingship.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the outer frame, King Janamejaya asks the narrator to recount what the sage Lomasha said earlier—speech connected with Indra’s instruction—specifically in relation to Yudhiṣṭhira. This question cues the next portion of the story in the Kundalāharaṇa (earrings-and-armor) episode context.