Ashramavasika Parva Adhyaya 32 Shloka 6 - Mahabharata | Japanese | Vedapath

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Shloka 6

Adhyāya 32: Tāpasānāṃ Darśanaṃ — Ascetics Seek to Identify the Pāṇḍavas

Devanagari script

परस्परं समागम्य योधास्ते भरतर्षभ । मुने: प्रसादात्‌ ते होवं क्षत्रिया नष्टमन्‍्यव:

Transliteration

parasparaṁ samāgamya yodhās te bharatarṣabha | muneḥ prasādāt te hovaṁ kṣatriyā naṣṭam anyavaḥ ||

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは言った。「バーラタ族の雄牛よ、あの戦士たちは面と向かって相集い、聖仙の恩寵によって、刹帝利としての真の気概と決意を取り戻し、もはや迷い失われることはなかった。」

Word by Word

परस्परम्mutually, with one another

समागम्यhaving come together, having met

योधाःwarriors

तेthose

भरतर्षभO bull of the Bharatas

मुनेःof the sage

प्रसादात्from (by) the grace/favor

तेthey

होवम्became

क्षत्रियाःKshatriyas, warriors (as a class)

नष्टमन्यवःwhose anger was gone; free from wrath

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Bharatarṣabha (addressed listener, Janamejaya)

muni (a sage, unnamed here)

kṣatriyāḥ (warrior class)

yodhāḥ (warriors)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how a sage’s prasāda (grace/benediction) can restore clarity, courage, and rightful Kṣatriya resolve—suggesting that ethical strength and right action may be rekindled through spiritual guidance rather than mere force.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana narrates that the warriors assembled and confronted one another; through the intervention or blessing of a sage, they regained their proper warrior disposition, no longer remaining in a ‘lost’ or disoriented state.