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Shloka 1

Taḍāga-Phala and Vṛkṣāropaṇa

Merit of Ponds and Tree-Planting

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्या भारत अनुशासनपर्वके अन्तर्गत दानधर्मपर्वमें छ॒त्र और उपानहकी उत्पत्तिनामक पंचानबेवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ ॥/ ९५ ॥। अपर बछ। है २ षण्णवतितमोब< ध्याय: छत्र और उपानहकी उत्पत्ति एवं दानकी प्रशंसा युधिछिर उवाच एवं प्रयाचति तथा भास्करे मुनिसत्तम: | जमदन्निर्महातेजा: कि कार्य प्रत्यपद्यत

Transliteration

Yudhiṣṭhira uvāca: evaṁ prayācati ca bhāskare munisattamaḥ | Jamadagniḥ mahātejāḥ kiṁ kāryaṁ pratyapadyata ||

Translation

ユディシュティラは言った。「大父よ、太陽神がそのように願い出たとき、威光あふれる大仙ジャマダグニは何をなされたのですか。」

Word by Word

युधिष्ठिरःYudhiṣṭhira

उवाचsaid/spoke

एवम्thus/in this manner

प्रयाचतिbegs/requests

तथाand so/likewise

भास्करेwhen/with regard to Bhāskara (the Sun)

मुनिसत्तमःthe best of sages

जमदग्निःJamadagni

महातेजाःof great splendor

किम्what

कार्यम्act/deed; task

प्रत्यपद्यतundertook/engaged in; did

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Bhīṣma (implied as the addressed 'munisattama')

Bhāskara (Sūrya, the Sun-god)

Jamadagni

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 frames dharma as practical response to a worthy request: ethical action (kārya) is prompted by supplication and guided by the conduct of exemplary sages like Jamadagni, within the broader praise of dāna (charitable giving).

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira asks Bhīṣma to continue the account: when the Sun-god (Bhāskara) was requesting something, what specific deed Jamadagni performed in response.