Shloka 31

कर्कोटक-उपदेशः

Karkoṭaka’s Counsel and Nala’s Concealment

Devanagari script

दमयन्ती तथा तेन पृच्छयमाना विशाम्पते । सर्वमेतद्‌ यथावृत्तमाचचक्षेडस्य भारत,भरतवंशी नरेश युधिष्ठिर! व्याधके पूछनेपर दमयन्तीने उसे सारा वृत्तान्त यथार्थरूपसे कह सुनाया

Transliteration

damayantī tathā tena pṛcchyamānā viśāmpate | sarvam etad yathāvṛttam ācacakṣe ’sya bhārata ||

Translation

O lord of the people, when she was thus questioned by him, Damayantī narrated to that hunter the entire account exactly as it had happened—truthfully and in due order, O Bhārata (Yudhiṣṭhira).

Word by Word

• {'damayantī': 'Damayantī (princess of Vidarbha

• wife of Nala)', 'tathā': 'thus

• in that manner', 'tena': "by him

• with him (instrumental of 'tad')", 'pṛcchyamānā': 'being asked

• being questioned (present passive participle of √prach)', 'viśāmpate': 'O lord of the subjects/people

• epithet of a king (vocative)', 'sarvam': 'all

• the whole', 'etat': 'this

• this matter', 'yathā-vṛttam': 'as it occurred

• according to what actually happened', 'ācacakṣe': 'she related

• she explained (perfect of √cakṣ/√khyā in narrative sense)', 'asya': 'to him

• of him (contextually: to that person)', 'bhārata': 'O Bhārata

Speaker

ब॒हृदश्चव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Damayantī
• Yudhiṣṭhira (addressed as Bhārata, viśāmpati)
• the hunter (vyādha, implied by context)