Shloka 9

Devanagari script

भुड्क्ष्व भोगान्‌ भ्रातृभिश्च सुहृद्धिश्न मनोडनुगान्‌ । शोचितव्यं न पश्यामि त्वया धर्मभूतां वर,“धर्मात्माओंमें श्रेष्ठ युधिष्ठिर!ी अब तुम अपने भाइयों और सुहृदोंके साथ मनोवांछित भोग भोगो। तुम्हारे लिये शोक करनेका कोई कारण मुझे नहीं दिखायी देता

Transliteration

bhuṅkṣva bhogān bhrātṛbhiś ca suhṛdbhiś ca manonugān | śocitavyaṃ na paśyāmi tvayā dharmabhṛtāṃ vara ||

Translation

“ಧರ್ಮವನ್ನು ಧರಿಸಿದವರಲ್ಲಿ ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠನೇ ಯುಧಿಷ್ಠಿರನೇ! ಈಗ ನಿನ್ನ ಸಹೋದರರು ಮತ್ತು ಸುಹೃದರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮನಸ್ಸಿಗೆ ಇಷ್ಟವಾದ ಭೋಗಗಳನ್ನು ಅನುಭವಿಸು. ನಿನಗೆ ಶೋಕಿಸಬೇಕಾದ ಕಾರಣ ನನಗೆ ಕಾಣುವುದಿಲ್ಲ.”

Word by Word

भुङ्क्ष्वenjoy (you)

भोगान्enjoyments, pleasures

भ्रातृभिःwith (your) brothers

चand

सुहृद्भिःwith friends, well-wishers

मनोनुगान्agreeable to the mind, desired

शोचितव्यम्to be grieved for, fit for lamentation

नnot

पश्यामिI see

त्वयाby you, for you (in your case)

धर्मभूताम्being in accordance with dharma; righteous (cause/ground)

वरO best one

Speaker

वैशमग्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

Yudhiṣṭhira

brothers (Pāṇḍavas)

suhṛt (friends/allies)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse affirms that after fulfilling one’s dharma and restoring order, legitimate enjoyment (bhoga) is not opposed to righteousness; excessive grief is to be relinquished when it no longer serves ethical action.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśaṃpāyana addresses Yudhiṣṭhira, urging him to stop grieving and to live as a righteous king—sharing appropriate prosperity and peace with his brothers and trusted allies in the aftermath of turmoil.