Shloka 6

Devanagari script

अभावादीनि भूतानि भावमध्यानि भारत । अभावनिधनान्येव तत्र का परिदेवना,जितने प्राणी हैं, वे जन्मसे पहले यहाँ व्यक्त नहीं थे। वे बीचमें ही व्यक्त होकर दिखायी देते हैं और अन्तमें पुनः उनका अभाव (अव्यक्तरूपसे अवस्थान) हो जायगा। ऐसी अवस्थामें उनके लिये रोने-धोनेकी क्या आवश्यकता है?

Transliteration

abhāvādīni bhūtāni bhāvamadhyāni bhārata | abhāvanidhanāny eva tatra kā paridevanā ||

Translation

ヴィドゥラは言った。「おおバーラタよ、衆生は未顕（不顕）のうちに始まり、中ほどでしばし顕現し、終わりには再び未顕へと帰る。これが命の性であるなら、嘆き泣くことに何の用があろうか。」

Word by Word

अभावात्from non-existence

एवindeed/only

आदीनिhaving as beginning

भूतानिbeings/creatures

भावexistence/manifestation

मध्यानिhaving as middle

भारतO Bharata (descendant of Bharata)

अभावnon-existence/unmanifest state

निधनानिhaving as end/death

एवindeed/only

तत्रthere/in that case

काwhat (kind of)?

परिदेवनाlamentation/wailing

Speaker

विदुर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vidura

Bhārata (Dhṛtarāṣṭra as addressee)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

All beings are unmanifest before birth, manifest for a limited interval, and unmanifest again at death; recognizing this natural cycle reduces excessive grief and encourages steadiness and dharmic composure.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Strī Parva’s mourning aftermath of the Kurukṣetra war, Vidura counsels the bereaved elder (addressed as ‘Bhārata’, i.e., Dhṛtarāṣṭra), urging him to restrain lamentation by reflecting on the transient, conditioned nature of embodied life.