Shloka 25

Devanagari script

तादृशे हि कुले जाता कुले चैव विवर्धिता । सुखात्‌ सुखमनुप्राप्ता हृदाद्‌ हृदमिवागता,वैसे उत्तम कुलमें तुम्हारा जन्म हुआ तथा मेरे श्रेष्ठ कुलमें तुम पालित और पोषित होकर बड़ी हुई। जैसे जलकी धारा एक सरोवरसे निकलकर दूसरे सरोवरमें गिरती है, उसी प्रकार तुम एक सुखमय स्थानसे दूसरे सुखमय स्थानमें आयी हो

Transliteration

tādṛśe hi kule jātā kule caiva vivardhitā | sukhāt sukham anuprāptā hṛdād hṛdam ivāgatā ||

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは言った。「まことに汝はかくも高貴なる家系に生まれ、また別の名門にて養われ、成長して成熟した。汝は安楽の境より安楽の境へと移ったのだ——一つの湖を出でて次の湖へ注ぐ水の流れのごとく。かくして汝の生は、尊厳と庇護を欠くことなく、幸福から幸福へと進んだのである。」

Word by Word

तादृशेin such (a)

हिindeed/for

कुलेin a family

जाताborn

कुलेin a family

चand

एवindeed/just

विवर्धिताbrought up/nurtured

सुखात्from happiness/from a pleasant state

सुखम्happiness/comfort

अनुप्राप्ताhaving attained/arrived at

हृदात्from a lake/pond

हृदम्a lake/pond

इवlike/as

आगताcome

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

kula (noble lineage/house)

hṛda (lake/pond)

water-stream/flow (implied by the simile)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores the ethical ideal of continuity of dignity and care: a woman of noble birth, when properly nurtured and married into an equally worthy household, should experience an unbroken passage of protection, honor, and well-being—symbolized by water moving naturally from one lake to another.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana describes a woman’s fortunate life-course in terms of her birth and upbringing in excellent families, using a vivid simile (from one lake to another) to convey her smooth transition from one secure, happy setting to the next.