Shloka 7

Devanagari script

ब्राह्मण उवाच एवमेतन्महाप्राज्ञ विदितात्मन्‌ भुजड्रम । नातिक्रान्तास्त्वया देवा: सर्वयैव यथातथम्‌,ब्राह्मणने कहा--महाप्राज्ञ आत्मज्ञानी नागराज! यह इसी प्रकार है। देवता भी आपसे बढ़कर नहीं हैं। यह बात सर्वथा यथार्थ है

Transliteration

brāhmaṇa uvāca: evam etan mahāprājña viditātman bhujaṅgama. nātikrāntās tvayā devāḥ sarvaśaiva yathātatham.

Translation

ブラーフマナは言った。「まことにそのとおりだ、大いなる智慧の者よ—自己を知る者よ、蛇族の王よ。神々すら汝を凌駕してはいない。あらゆる点で、これは真実そのままである。」

Word by Word

ब्राह्मणःthe Brahmin

उवाचsaid

एवम्thus, in this manner

एतत्this

महाप्राज्ञO greatly wise one

विदितात्मन्O self-knowing one (whose self is known)

भुजङ्गेन्द्रO lord of serpents

नnot

अतिक्रान्ताःsurpassed, gone beyond

त्वयाby you

देवाःthe gods

सर्वयाin every way, wholly

एवindeed, certainly

यथाas, just as

तथाso, in that way

Speaker

ब्राह्मण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Brāhmaṇa (speaker)

Bhujaṅgama / Nāgarāja (serpent-king addressee)

Devas (gods)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

True superiority is measured by realized wisdom and self-knowledge (viditātman), not merely by divine status; the Brāhmaṇa affirms that insight into reality can stand equal to or beyond the gods.

What is happening in the narrative?

A Brāhmaṇa addresses a serpent-king (nāgarāja/bhujaṅgama), confirming the serpent’s profound understanding and declaring that even the gods have not exceeded him—an emphatic endorsement of the truth just stated.