Shloka 63

Devanagari script

तवैव कारणाद्‌ रक्षो निहतं तात संयुगे । मा क्रुधो भरतश्रेष्ठ माच शोके मन: कृथा:

Transliteration

tavaiva kāraṇād rakṣo nihataṃ tāta saṃyuge | mā krudho bharataśreṣṭha mā ca śoke manaḥ kṛthāḥ ||

Translation

ヴィヤーサは言った。「わが子よ、ただ汝のゆえにこそ、その羅刹は戦いの中で討たれたのだ。バラタ族の最勝者よ、怒るな。心を悲嘆に沈めてはならぬ。」

Word by Word

• तव: of you/your
• तव: सम्बन्ध
• Type: Noun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, षष्ठी, एकवचन

• एव: indeed/only
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• कारणात्: because of/from the cause (i.e., due to)
• कारणात्: अपादान
• Type: Noun
• Root: कारण
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, पञ्चमी, एकवचन

• रक्षः: the Rakshasa/demon
• रक्षः: कर्ता
• Type: Noun
• Root: रक्षस्
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• निहतम्: slain/killed
• Type: Verb
• Root: नि-हन्
• Form: क्त, नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• तात: dear one/son (vocative)
• तात: सम्बोधन
• Type: Noun
• Root: तात
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन, एकवचन

• संयुगे: in battle
• संयुगे: अधिकरण
• Type: Noun
• Root: संयुग
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन

• मा: do not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: मा
• Form: निषेध (prohibitive particle)

• क्रुधः: be angry
• Type: Verb
• Root: क्रुध्
• Form: लोट् (prohibitive sense with मा), मध्यम, एकवचन, परस्मैपद

• भरतश्रेष्ठ: O best of the Bharatas
• भरतश्रेष्ठ: सम्बोधन
• Type: Noun
• Root: भरत-श्रेष्ठ
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन, एकवचन

• मा: do not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: मा
• Form: निषेध (prohibitive particle)

• च: and/also
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• शोके: in grief
• शोके: अधिकरण
• Type: Noun
• Root: शोक
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी, एकवचन

• मनः: mind
• मनः: कर्म
• Type: Noun
• Root: मनस्
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• कृथाः: make/do
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ
• Form: लोट् (prohibitive sense with मा), मध्यम, एकवचन, परस्मैपद

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vyāsa
• Bharataśreṣṭha (addressed person, a Bharata prince)
• Rākṣasa (unnamed)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Vyāsa urges emotional restraint in the midst of war: do not be consumed by anger or grief, and recognize causality without collapsing into lamentation—an ethical call to steadiness (dhairya) while facing the consequences of battle.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vyāsa addresses a Bharata hero, stating that an (unnamed) Rākṣasa has been killed in the fighting due to that hero’s agency, and he counsels him not to react with rage or sink into sorrow.