Shloka 47

Devanagari script

नहि मे विक्रमे तुल्य: कश्चिदस्ति पुमानिह | यथैव सवितुस्तुल्यं ज्योतिरन्यन्न विद्यते,“इस संसारमें मेरे पराक्रमकी समानता करनेवाला दूसरा कोई पुरुष नहीं है। ठीक वैसे ही, जैसे सूर्यके समान दूसरा कोई ज्योतिर्मय ग्रह नहीं है

Transliteration

nahi me vikrame tulyaḥ kaścid asti pumān iha | yathaiva savituḥ tulyaṃ jyotir anyan na vidyate ||

Translation

サンジャヤは言った。「この世において、武勇において我に等しき男は一人もいない。太陽に比肩する光り輝く天体が他にないように、我が勇気に並ぶ者もまたいない。」

Word by Word

नहिnot, indeed not

मेof me / my

विक्रमेin (my) prowess/valor

तुल्यःequal

कश्चित्anyone / someone

अस्तिis/exists

पुमान्man/person

इहhere (in this world)

यथाjust as

एवindeed/just

सवितुःof the Sun

तुल्यम्equal (to)

ज्योतिःlight/luminary

अन्यत्another

नnot

विद्यतेis found/exists

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Savitṛ (the Sun)

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 danger of self-exalting pride (ahaṅkāra) in a war context: claiming unmatched prowess is rhetorically powerful, but ethically it signals overconfidence and a narrowing of judgment—traits the epic often shows as leading to downfall.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports a speaker’s bold self-assertion of unrivaled martial strength, reinforced through a cosmic simile: as the Sun has no equal among lights, so the speaker claims no equal among men in valor—an intensification typical of battlefield speeches.