Shloka 46

Devanagari script

एवमेता महाभागा यज्ञिया: सर्वकामदा: । रोहिण्य इति जानीहि नैताभ्यो विद्यते परम्‌,इस प्रकार ये महाभाग्यशालिनी गौएँ यज्ञका प्रधान अंग हैं और सबको सम्पूर्ण कामनाएँ देनेवाली हैं। तुम इन्हें रोहिणी समझो। इनसे बढ़कर दूसरा कुछ नहीं है

Transliteration

evam etā mahābhāgā yajñiyāḥ sarvakāmadāḥ | rohiṇya iti jānīhi naitābhyo vidyate param ||

Translation

ヴィヤーサは言った。「かくして、この大いなる福徳を具えた牛たちは、ヤジュニャ（祭祀）の要であり、あらゆる願いをかなえる授与者である。彼女らを『ローヒニー（Rohiṇī）』と知れ。これに勝るものはない。」

Word by Word

एवम्thus, in this manner

एताःthese

महाभागाःhighly fortunate, noble

यज्ञियाःfit for sacrifice, sacrificial

सर्वकामदाःgranting all desires

रोहिण्यःRohiṇīs (name/class of cows)

इतिthus, as (so called)

जानीहिknow (you), understand

नnot

एताभ्यःthan these, from these

विद्यतेexists, is found

परम्higher, superior (anything)

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vyāsa

Rohiṇīs (cows)

yajña (sacrifice/ritual worship)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse elevates cows as supremely valuable within dharma: they are portrayed as central to yajña and as beneficent givers of welfare. Ethically, it promotes reverence, protection, and generous support of such life-sustaining beings as a high religious duty.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vyāsa is instructing the listener about the exceptional status of certain cows, naming them ‘Rohiṇīs’ and asserting their unsurpassed importance—especially in relation to sacrificial rites and the granting of desired goods.