Shloka 25

अध्याय २९४ — योगलक्षणम् तथा सांख्यपरिसंख्यानम्

Yoga Definition and Sāṃkhya Enumeration

Devanagari script

न संकरेण द्रविणं प्रचिन्वीयाद्‌ विचक्षण: । धर्मार्थ न्यायमुत्सूज्य न तत्‌ कल्याणमुच्यते

Transliteration

na saṅkareṇa draviṇaṁ pracinvīyād vicakṣaṇaḥ | dharmārtha-nyāyam utsṛjya na tat kalyāṇam ucyate ||

Translation

賢明な者は、汚れた、あるいは混じりものの道によって財を集めてはならない。利のために正義とダルマを捨てるなら、それは真の吉祥とも福祉とも呼ばれぬ。

Word by Word

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• संकरेण: by mixture/impurity (sinful admixture)
• संकरेण: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सङ्कर
• Form: masculine, instrumental, singular

• द्रविणम्: wealth
• द्रविणम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्रविण
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• प्रचिन्वीयात्: should collect/accumulate
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + चि
• Form: vidhi-linga, optative (potential), third, singular, parasmaipada

• विचक्षणः: the discerning (man)
• विचक्षणः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विचक्षण
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• धर्मार्थम्: for the sake of dharma
• धर्मार्थम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: धर्मार्थ
• Form: masculine, accusative, singular

• न्यायम्: justice/right conduct
• न्यायम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: न्याय
• Form: masculine, accusative, singular

• उत्सृज्य: having abandoned
• Type: Verb
• Root: उत् + सृज्
• Form: absolutive (ktvanta/gerund)

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• तत्: that
• तत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: neuter, nominative, singular

• कल्याणम्: welfare/good
• कल्याणम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: कल्याण
• Form: neuter, nominative, singular

• उच्यते: is said/called
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: lat, present, third, singular, atmanepada, passive (karmani)

Speaker

पराशर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Parāśara

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Wealth should be acquired only through clean, just, and dharmic means; abandoning nyāya (justice) and dharma for artha (gain) is not true kalyāṇa (welfare).

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva’s instruction-oriented discourse, the sage Parāśara delivers a moral maxim: the wise should avoid accumulating riches through tainted methods, emphasizing that unethical gain cannot be called genuinely beneficial.