Shloka 39

Duryodhana Seized by Citraseṇa; Kaurava Petition to Yudhiṣṭhira (दुर्योधनापहारः / चित्रसेनगन्धर्वग्रहणम्)

Devanagari script

या जनित्री त्वप्सरसां गर्भमास्ते प्रगृह्ा सा

Transliteration

yā janitrī tv apsarasāṁ garbham āste pragṛhya sā

Translation

マールカンデーヤは言った。「アプサラスの母である彼女は、いま身ごもり、その胎を己の内に抱えている。」

Word by Word

• या: who (she)
• या: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• जनित्री: mother, begetter
• जनित्री: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: जनितृ (from √जन्)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• तु: but, indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• अप्सरसाम्: of the Apsarases
• अप्सरसाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: अप्सरस्
• Form: Feminine, Genitive, Plural

• गर्भम्: womb, pregnancy
• गर्भम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: गर्भ
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• आस्ते: sits; remains; is (in a state)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √आस्
• Form: Present, Third, Singular, Atmanepada

• प्रगृह्य: having taken, having seized
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र + √ग्रह्
• Form: ल्यप् (absolutive/gerund), Parasmaipada/Atmanepada-neutral (gerund)

• सा: she
• सा: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mārkaṇḍeya
• Apsarases

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse primarily serves narrative clarification rather than a direct moral injunction: it highlights the extraordinary, cosmic lineage of celestial beings and frames events as unfolding through divinely ordered generation and continuity.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mārkaṇḍeya is describing a specific figure identified as the progenitress of the Apsarases, stating that she is presently in a state of pregnancy—an explanatory detail within a larger mythic account.