Shloka 2

Devanagari script

स सर्वनाश्रमान्‌ गत्वा शैब्यया सह भार्यया । पुत्रहेतो: परामार्ति जगाम भरतर्षभ,भरतश्रेष्ठ] वे अपनी पत्नी शैब्याके साथ सभी आश्रमोंमें जाकर पुत्रका पता लगाने लगे। उस समय उन्हें सत्यवानके लिये बड़ी वेदना हो रही थी

Transliteration

sa sarvān āśramān gatvā śaibyayā saha bhāryayā | putra-hetoḥ parām ārtiṁ jagāma bharatarṣabha ||

Translation

バーラタ族の雄牛よ、彼は妃シャイビヤーとともに、子を求めてあらゆる庵を巡った。その探索のさなか、サティヤヴァーンを思う悲嘆に責め立てられ、深い苦悩へと沈んだ。

Word by Word

सःhe

सर्वान्all

आश्रमान्hermitages

गत्वाhaving gone

शैब्ययाwith Shaibya

सहtogether with

भार्ययाwith (his) wife

पुत्रहेतोःfor the sake of a son

पराम्great, extreme

आर्तिम्distress, anguish

जगामwent, came to (experienced)

भरतर्षभO bull among the Bharatas

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mārkaṇḍeya

Śaibyā

Satyavān

āśramas (hermitages)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the ethical tension between duty and suffering: parental responsibility and steadfast effort (seeking one’s child) can coexist with intense grief, yet one continues to act rather than collapse into despair.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mārkaṇḍeya describes a man who, accompanied by his wife Śaibyā, goes from hermitage to hermitage searching for his son; during this search he is overwhelmed by deep anguish connected with Satyavān.