Shloka 7

अध्याय ७५ — दैव-पुरुषकार-समन्वयः

Reconciling Contingency and Human Effort

Devanagari script

पश्येमे रोदसी कृष्ण ययोरासन्निमा: प्रजा:

Transliteration

paśyeme rodasī kṛṣṇa yayorāsann imāḥ prajāḥ

Translation

ビーマセーナは言った。「見よ、クリシュナよ、この二つの世界——天と地——その内にあらゆる生きものが住まうのだ。」この言葉は、人の行いが置かれる道義の舞台の広大さを示す。迫り来る争いで下される決断は、一国の内にとどまらず、生命の秩序全体にまで響き渡るのである。

Word by Word

• पश्य: see, behold
• पश्य: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: पश् (दृश्-अर्थे)
• Form: लोट् (imperative), 2, singular, परस्मैपदम्

• इमे: these (two)
• इमे: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: feminine, nominative, dual

• रोदसी: the two worlds (heaven and earth)
• रोदसी: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: रोदसी (द्यावापृथिव्यौ)
• Form: feminine, nominative, dual

• कृष्ण: O Krishna
• कृष्ण: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृष्ण
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• ययोः: of which two / of whom (two)
• ययोः: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: feminine, genitive, dual

• आसन्: were
• आसन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: अस्
• Form: लङ् (imperfect), 3, plural, परस्मैपदम्

• इमाः: these
• इमाः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: feminine, nominative, plural

• प्रजाः: creatures, subjects, people
• प्रजाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रजा
• Form: feminine, nominative, plural

Speaker

भीमसेन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīmasena
• Kṛṣṇa
• rodasī (heaven and earth)
• prajāḥ (beings/subjects)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Bhīma invokes “the two worlds” to stress that human choices—especially those leading to war—carry consequences that touch the whole moral and cosmic order. The verse frames political conflict as an ethical matter with universal scope.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Udyoga Parva, as tensions move toward open war, Bhīmasena addresses Kṛṣṇa and points to the vastness of the worlds in which all beings live, heightening the seriousness of the decisions and actions about to be taken.