Shloka 11
राजधर्मः—राष्ट्ररक्षणं, दण्डनीतिः, हयग्रीवोपाख्यानम्
Royal Duty: Protection, Penal Policy, and the Hayagrīva Exemplum
नाकालतो म्रियते जायते वा नाकालतो व्याहरते च बाल: । नाकालतो यौवनमभ्युपैति नाकालतो रोहति बीजमुप्तम्
na kālato mriyate jāyate vā na kālato vyāharate ca bālaḥ | na kālato yauvanam abhyupaiti na kālato rohati bījam uptam ||
ヴィヤーサは言った。「定められた時より早く死ぬ者はなく、またその時より早く生まれる者もない。子は時が来るまで言葉を発し始めることすらない。若さもまた時節に従って訪れ、蒔かれた種もその時が来てはじめて芽吹く。かくして世の移ろいは時の支配のもとに展開し、得失の前に忍耐と不動の心を教えるのである。」
व्यास उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse teaches the sovereignty of kāla (time): birth, death, speech, maturation, and growth occur only when their proper time arrives. Ethically, it encourages patience, acceptance, and steadiness rather than anxiety over outcomes that cannot be forced.
In the didactic setting of Śānti Parva, Vyāsa delivers an instruction emphasizing that life-events unfold according to time’s order. He illustrates this with everyday examples—child development, the onset of youth, and a seed’s sprouting—to ground a moral lesson in observable nature.