Shloka 25

Devanagari script

दृष्टवा पौरैस्तदा सम्यग्‌ गदा चैव निवेदिता । गदावसानं तत्‌ ख्यातं मथुराया: समीपत:,पुरवासियोंने उसे देखकर उसकी सूचना भगवान्‌ श्रीकृष्णको दी। मथुराके समीपका वह स्थान, जहाँ गदा गिरी थी, गदावसानके नामसे विख्यात हुआ

Transliteration

dṛṣṭvā pauraiḥ tadā samyag gadā caiva niveditā | gadāvasānaṃ tat khyātaṃ mathurāyāḥ samīpataḥ ||

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは語った。町人たちはそれをはっきりと見届けると、その棍棒のことを主シュリー・クリシュナに奏上した。マトゥラー近郊で棍棒が止まったその地は、「ガダーの終わり／安息の地」を意味するガダーヴァサーナ（Gadāvasāna）と呼ばれて名高くなった。

Word by Word

दृष्ट्वाhaving seen

पौरैःby the citizens/townsmen

तदाthen

सम्यक्properly, clearly

गदाthe mace (Gadā)

चand

एवindeed, just

निवेदिताwas reported/informed

गदा-अवसानम्‘Gadā’s end’ (place-name: end/fall of the mace)

तत्that

ख्यातम्was renowned/known

मथुरायाःof Mathurā

समीपतःnear, in the vicinity

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Śrī Kṛṣṇa

Mathurā

gadā (mace)

paura (townspeople)

Gadāvasāna (place)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how public witness and truthful reporting preserve memory and create sacred geography: an event becomes ethically and culturally significant when it is clearly observed, responsibly communicated, and commemorated as a named place.

What is happening in the narrative?

Citizens see the mace and inform Śrī Kṛṣṇa about it. The location near Mathurā where the mace came to rest becomes known thereafter as Gadāvasāna.