Shloka 13

युधिष्ठिरकृष्णसंवादः — Yudhiṣṭhira’s Appeal and Kṛṣṇa’s Assurance

Droṇa-parva, Adhyāya 59

Devanagari script

नाहीयत तदा प्राण: प्राणिनां न तदन्‍्यथा

Transliteration

nāhīyata tadā prāṇaḥ prāṇināṁ na tad anyathā

Translation

ಆ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಾಣಿಗಳ ಪ್ರಾಣವು ಹೊರಟುಹೋಗಲಿಲ್ಲ; ಅದು ಬೇರೆ ರೀತಿಯಾಗಿ ಆಗುವುದೂ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ.

Word by Word

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• ईयत: went / departed
• Type: Verb
• Root: इ (धातु)
• Form: Imperfect (लङ्), 3rd, singular, Parasmaipada

• तदा: then
• तदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

• प्राणः: life-breath / life
• प्राणः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्राण
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• प्राणिनाम्: of living beings
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्राणिन्
• Form: masculine, genitive, plural

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• तत्: that (was)
• तत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: neuter, nominative, singular

• अन्यथा: otherwise
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अन्यथा

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Nārada
• prāṇa (life-breath)
• prāṇin (living beings)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

That life and death are not merely products of immediate violence or circumstance; when a superior ordinance—often understood as destiny or divine protection—operates, the life-breath does not depart, and the outcome cannot be otherwise.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada comments on a moment when, despite conditions that would normally cause death, the beings involved do not lose their life-breath. The line functions as a narrative assurance that an overriding power or destined sequence is governing events.