Shloka 873

Adhyāya 90: Babhruvāhana’s Reception and the Commencement of Yudhiṣṭhira’s Aśvamedha

Devanagari script

असंकरेण धर्मेण तस्माद्‌ गच्छ दिवं द्विज । “अतः ब्रह्मन! तुम अपने ब्रह्मचर्य, दान, यज्ञ, तप तथा संकरतारहित धर्मके प्रभावसे स्वर्गलोकमें चलो

Transliteration

asaṅkareṇa dharmeṇa tasmād gaccha divaṃ dvija |

Translation

ಆದ್ದರಿಂದ, ಹೇ ದ್ವಿಜ! ಅಸಂಕರವಾದ, ಕಲ್ಮಷರಹಿತ ಧರ್ಮದ ಪ್ರಭಾವದಿಂದ ಸ್ವರ್ಗಲೋಕಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗು—ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಚರ್ಯ, ದಾನ, ಯಜ್ಞ, ತಪಸ್ಸುಗಳಿಂದ ಪ್ರಕಾಶಿಸುವ ಆ ಶುದ್ಧ ಧರ್ಮಬಲದಿಂದ.

Word by Word

• असंकरेण: by/with non-mixture (unconfused, free from admixture)
• असंकरेण: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: असङ्कर
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• धर्मेण: by/with dharma, righteousness
• धर्मेण: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: धर्म
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Singular

• तस्मात्: therefore, from that reason
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तस्मद् (तद्-प्रातिपदिक)

• गच्छ: go
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम्
• Form: Imperative, Second, Singular

• दिवम्: to heaven, the heavenly world
• दिवम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: दिव्/द्यौ (दिव)
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• द्विज: O twice-born (brahmin)
• Type: Noun
• Root: द्विज
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

श्षशुर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• śvaśura (father-in-law, speaker)
• dvija (the addressed Brahmin/twice-born)
• divaṃ (svarga/heaven)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

That dharma must be practiced without compromise or contamination (asaṅkara). Such integrity in righteousness is presented as a direct cause of spiritual merit and attainment of heaven.

What is happening in the narrative?

A father-in-law addresses a twice-born man and urges him to proceed to heaven, attributing this destiny to the man’s practice of an unmixed, undefiled dharma.