Shloka 43

Devanagari script

तस्मिन्नपरिहार्येर्थे व्यतीते च विशेषत:,“जब यह विनाश किसी तरह टल नहीं सकता था, विशेषतः जब सब कुछ होकर समाप्त हो गया, तो अब तुम्हें शोक नहीं करना चाहिये। वे सभी वीर संग्राममें मारे गये हैं, अतः शोक करनेके योग्य नहीं हैं। आज जैसी मैं हूँ, वैसी ही तुम भी हो। हम दोनोंको कौन धीरज बँधायेगा? मेरे ही अपराधसे इस श्रेष्ठ कुल॒का संहार हुआ है”

Transliteration

tasminn aparihārye 'rthe vyatīte ca viśeṣataḥ |

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは語った。「その避けがたい災厄がどうしても退けられず――とりわけ今や、すべてが起こり、すでに終わってしまった以上――あなたはもはや嘆くべきではない。あの勇士たちは戦場で倒れたのだ。ゆえに嘆きの対象ではない。今日、あなたはわたしのようであり、わたしはあなたのようだ――では誰が互いを励ますのか。わたし自身の過ちによって、この高貴な家系の滅亡が起こったのだ。」

Word by Word

तस्मिन्in that

अपरिहार्येunavoidable

अर्थेmatter/event

व्यतीतेhaving passed/elapsed

चand

विशेषतःespecially

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

the heroes/warriors (vīrāḥ)

the noble lineage/dynasty (śreṣṭha-kula)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The passage urges restraint of grief when an event is unavoidable and already concluded, while also acknowledging moral responsibility: lamentation cannot reverse fate, yet one must face the ethical weight of one’s actions and seek steadiness rather than collapse into sorrow.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the aftermath of the great war, a speaker (reported by Vaiśampāyana) addresses a grieving person, arguing that the warriors died in battle and that the catastrophe was inevitable; the speaker then confesses personal culpability for the destruction of the noble dynasty and notes that both are equally bereft of consolation.