Shloka 9

Strī Parva, Adhyāya 2 — Vidura’s Consolation on Kāla, Karma, and the Limits of Lamentation (विदुरोपदेशः)

Devanagari script

यथा वायुस्तृणाग्राणि संवर्तयति सर्वश: । तथा कालवशं यान्ति भूतानि भरतर्षभ,भरतश्रेष्ठ जैसे हवा तिनकोंको सब ओर उड़ाती और डालती रहती है, उसी प्रकार समस्त प्राणी कालके अधीन होकर आते-जाते हैं

Transliteration

yathā vāyus tṛṇāgrāṇi saṃvartayati sarvaśaḥ | tathā kālavaśaṃ yānti bhūtāni bharatarṣabha ||

Translation

ヴィドゥラは言った。「バーラタ族の雄よ、風が草の穂先を渦巻かせ、四方へ散らすように、すべての生きものは時に圧され、来ては去ることを余儀なくされる。」

Word by Word

• यथा: just as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• वायुः: wind
• वायुः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वायु
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• तृणाग्राणि: tips of grass (straw-blades)
• तृणाग्राणि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: तृणाग्र
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Plural

• संवर्तयति: whirls/drives about
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-वृत् (causative: संवर्तयति)
• Form: Present, Third, Singular, Parasmaipada

• सर्वशः: on all sides; in every way
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सर्वशः

• तथा: so; likewise
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• कालवशम्: under the control of Time
• कालवशम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: कालवश
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• यान्ति: go; pass (come and go)
• Type: Verb
• Root: या
• Form: Present, Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• भूतानि: beings; creatures
• भूतानि: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• भरतर्षभ: O bull among the Bharatas
• Type: Noun
• Root: भरतर्षभ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

विदुर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vidura
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by the address 'bharatarṣabha')
• vāyu (wind)
• kāla (Time)
• bhūtāni (living beings)