Shloka 38

Devanagari script

त्यजायुधममोधेषो तिष्ठ वर्त्मनि शाश्वते । परिपूर्णश्च॒ कालस्ते वस्तुं लोकेउद्य मानुषे,“अमोघ बाणवाले द्रोणाचार्य! अस्त्र-शस्त्रोंका परित्याग कर दो और अपने सनातन मार्गपर स्थित हो जाओ। आज इस मनुष्यलोकमें तुम्हारे रहनेका समय पूरा हो गया

Transliteration

tyajāyudham amogheṣo tiṣṭha vartmani śāśvate | paripūrṇaś ca kālas te vastum loke 'dya mānuṣe ||

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「おお、決して外さぬ者よ、武器を捨て、永遠の道に立て。今日、人の世に留まると定められた汝の時は満ちた。」

Word by Word

त्यजabandon, give up

आयुधम्weapon

अमोघेषोO Amogheṣu (name/epithet)

तिष्ठstand, remain

वर्त्मनिon the path

शाश्वतेeternal

परिपूर्णःfully completed

चand

कालःtime

तेyour

वस्तुम्to dwell, to stay

लोकेin the world

उद्यup, forth (as a preverb/particle)

मानुषेhuman

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Droṇācārya (implied by the Hindi gloss)

āyudha (weapons)

mānuṣa-loka (human world)

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?

When one’s appointed time (kāla) is complete, clinging to power and weapons is futile; the ethical response is to relinquish violence and align oneself with the eternal path—dharma that transcends battlefield success.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Drona Parva’s climactic context, a voice (reported by Sañjaya) addresses the great warrior-teacher, urging him to abandon arms because his time in the human world has ended—signaling an imminent death and a transition from martial action to final reckoning.