Shloka 29

Devanagari script

न चाप्यधर्मे न सुहृद्विभेदने परस्वहारे परदारमर्शने । कदर्यभावे न रमेन्मन: सदा नृणां सदाख्यानमिदं विजानताम्‌,तथा जो लोग सदा इस मनोहर उपाख्यानको स्मरण रखेंगे; उनका मन अधर्ममें, सुहृदोंके भीतर फ़ूट डालनेमें, दूसरोंका धन हरनेमें, परस्त्रीगमनमें अथवा कृपणतामें कभी प्रवृत्त नहीं होगा

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca |

na cāpy adharme na suhṛd-vibhedane para-svahāre para-dāra-marśane |

kadarya-bhāve na ramen manaḥ sadā nṛṇāṃ sadākhyānam idaṃ vijānatām ||

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは語った。真に理解し、この常に吉祥なる物語を心に保つ者の心は、決して次のいずれにも喜びを見いださぬように—不義（アダルマ）、友の間に分裂を播くこと、他人の財を奪うこと、他人の妻に近づくこと、あるいは卑しい吝嗇に沈むこと。かくもこの美しき叙事を絶えず想起する者は、心がそのような悪へと傾かないのである。

Word by Word

नnot

चand

अपिeven/also

अधर्मेin unrighteousness

नnot

सुहृत्-विभेदनेin the splitting of friends

पर-स्वहारेin stealing others' property

पर-दार-मर्शनेin touching/approaching another's wife

कदर्य-भावेin miserly disposition

नnot

रमेत्would delight/engage

मनःmind

सदाalways

नृणाम्of men/people

सदाख्यानम्this ever-told narrative

इदम्this

विजानताम्let them know/understand

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

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?

Constant remembrance and true understanding of an uplifting sacred narrative restrains the mind from key ethical lapses: unrighteousness, creating rifts among friends, stealing others’ property, violating marital boundaries, and miserly meanness.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana concludes or emphasizes the fruit (phalaśruti) of the preceding upākhyāna: those who keep this tale in mind are morally protected, as their minds do not incline toward specific forms of wrongdoing.