Shloka 22

Adhyāya 125: Raṅga-pradarśana — Arjuna’s Entry and Astric Demonstration (रङ्गप्रदर्शनम्)

Devanagari script

माद्रयुवाच विलपन्त्या मया देवि वार्यमाणेन चासकृत्‌ । आत्मा न वारितो<नेन सत्यं दिष्टं चिकीर्षणा

Transliteration

mādry uvāca vilapantyā mayā devi vāryamāṇena cāsakṛt | ātmā na vārito 'nena satyaṃ diṣṭaṃ cikīrṣaṇā ||

Translation

マードリーは言った。「王妃よ、私は泣き叫び嘆きながら、幾度となく王をお止めしようといたしました。けれど王は自らを抑えられず、迷妄に駆られて、呪いより生じた定めの不幸を現実にしようとしているかのようでした。」

Word by Word

• माद्री: Madri
• माद्री: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: माद्री
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• उवाच: said
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: Perfect, 3rd, Singular

• विलपन्त्या: by me lamenting/while I was lamenting
• विलपन्त्या: Karana
• Type: Verb
• Root: विलप्
• Form: Feminine, Instrumental, Singular, Present active participle (शतृ)

• मया: by me
• मया: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Instrumental, Singular

• देवि: O lady/queen
• Type: Noun
• Root: देवी
• Form: Feminine, Vocative, Singular

• वार्यमाणेन: by (him) being restrained / though being restrained
• वार्यमाणेन: Karana
• Type: Verb
• Root: वारय्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular, Present passive participle (शानच्/मान)

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• असकृत्: again and again
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: असकृत्

• आत्मा: he himself / his own self
• आत्मा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: आत्मन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• वारितः: was restrained/held back
• Type: Verb
• Root: वारय्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular, Past passive participle (क्त)

• अनेन: by this (means/person)
• अनेन: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• सत्यम्: true / truth (as object: to make true)
• सत्यम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सत्य
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• दिष्टम्: fate, destiny (ordained lot)
• दिष्टम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: दिष्ट
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• चिकीर्षणा: the desire/intention to do (so)
• चिकीर्षणा: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular, Desiderative action-noun (इच्छार्थक), from चिकीर्ष्

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mādrī
• Devi (the addressed queen/lady)
• the king (implied; contextually Pāṇḍu)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the ethical importance of self-restraint: even when warned and restrained by loved ones, a person overcome by moha (delusion) may choose to enact what seems ‘fated,’ turning a curse or misfortune into lived reality. It cautions that destiny does not remove personal responsibility for self-control.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mādrī recounts to the addressed queen that she repeatedly tried, in tears, to stop the king from a course of action. Despite her efforts, he could not check himself and appeared determined to fulfill a doom linked with a curse, as though making the foretold misfortune come true.