Shloka 9

अध्याय १४६ — निशायां सात्यकिदुर्योधनयुद्धम् / Chapter 146 — Night Battle: Sātyaki and Duryodhana; Śakuni’s Encirclement of Arjuna

Devanagari script

एतस्मिन्नेव काले तु देवकस्य महात्मन: । दुहितुः स्वयंवरे राजन्‌ सर्वक्षत्रसमागमे,राजन्‌! इसी समय महात्मा देवककी पुत्री देवकीके स्वयंवरमें सम्पूर्ण क्षत्रिय एकत्र हुए थे

Transliteration

etasminneva kāle tu devakasya mahātmanaḥ | duhituḥ svayaṃvare rājan sarvakṣatrasamāgame ||

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。その同じ頃、王よ、すべてのクシャトリヤの諸王子が集いし折、偉大なる心をもつデーヴァカの娘デーヴァキーのスヴァヤンヴァラ（自選婚）の儀が執り行われていた。

Word by Word

एतस्मिन्in this

एवindeed/just

कालेat the time

तुbut/and

देवकस्यof Devaka

महात्मनःof the great-souled (one)

दुहितुःof (his) daughter

स्वयंवरेat the svayaṃvara

राजन्O king

सर्वall/entire

क्षत्रkṣatriya class/warrior order

समागमेin the assembly/gathering

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

King (Dhṛtarāṣṭra, implied by address rājan)

Devaka

Devakī

Kṣatriyas (assembled princes)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the Kṣatriya social-ethical framework in which marriage is a public, polity-shaping event: a svayaṃvara convenes the warrior-elite, linking personal choice with dynastic alliance and public legitimacy.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya situates the timeline by noting that, at that same moment, Devakī’s svayaṃvara—hosted by her father Devaka—was taking place, drawing together Kṣatriya rulers and princes in a single grand assembly.