Shloka 20

सेनापति-निर्णयः तथा पाण्डवसेनायाः कुरुक्षेत्रगमनम्

Decision on Command and the Pandavas’ March to Kurukshetra

Devanagari script

नते राज्यं प्रयच्छन्ति विना युद्धेन पाण्डव । विनाशहेतव: सर्वे प्रत्युपस्थितमृत्यव:,पाण्डुनन्दन! वे कौरव बिना युद्ध किये तुम्हें राज्य नहीं देंगे। उन सबके विनाशका कारण जुट गया है और उनका मृत्युकाल भी आ पहुँचा है

Transliteration

na te rājyaṁ prayacchanti vinā yuddhena pāṇḍava | vināśahetavaḥ sarve pratyupasthitamṛtyavaḥ pāṇḍunandana ||

Translation

パーンダヴァよ、彼らは戦なくして汝に王国を与えはしない。彼らは皆、自らの滅亡の因となり、死の時もすでに迫っている、パーンドゥの子よ。この諭しが示すのは、驕りと不義が拒絶として固まりきるとき、争いは避けがたくなり、アダルマは熟して自らの破滅を結ぶ、ということである。

Word by Word

nanot

teto you

rājyamkingdom

prayacchantithey give / will grant

vināwithout

yuddhenaby/with war; in battle

pāṇḍavaO Pāṇḍava

vināśa-hetavaḥcauses of destruction

sarveall

pratyupasthita-mṛtyavaḥthose whose death has come near / with death at hand

pāṇḍu-nandanaO son of Pāṇḍu

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vāyudeva

Pāṇḍava (addressed)

Pāṇḍu

Kauravas (implied by context: 'they')

Rājya (the kingdom)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes