Shloka 28

Devanagari script

अस्मान्‌ नैवं पुत्रदारैर्विहीनान्‌ सुखाद्‌ भ्रष्टान्‌ राज्यनाशाच्च भूय:

Transliteration

asmān naivaṁ putradārair vihīnān sukhād bhraṣṭān rājyānāśāc ca bhūyaḥ

Translation

ಸಂಜಯನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—“ನಾವು ಮತ್ತೆ ಇಂತಹ ಸ್ಥಿತಿಗೆ ಬೀಳದಿರಲಿ—ಪುತ್ರರು ಮತ್ತು ಪತ್ನಿಯರಿಂದ ವಂಚಿತರಾಗಿ, ಸುಖದಿಂದ ಚ್ಯುತರಾಗಿ, ರಾಜ್ಯನಾಶದಿಂದ ಇನ್ನಷ್ಟು ನಾಶಗೊಂಡು.”

Word by Word

• अस्मान्: us
• अस्मान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Accusative, Plural

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

• एवम्: thus, in this manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• पुत्रदारैः: by sons and wives (i.e., with family)
• पुत्रदारैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुत्र
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental, Plural

• विहीनान्: deprived (of), bereft
• विहीनान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विहीन
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• सुखात्: from happiness/comfort
• सुखात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुख
• Form: Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• भ्रष्टान्: fallen, deprived, ruined
• भ्रष्टान्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: भ्रष्ट
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• राज्यनाशात्: from the destruction/loss of the kingdom
• राज्यनाशात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राज्यनाश
• Form: Masculine, Ablative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• भूयः: again, further, moreover
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: भूयस्

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• sons (putra)
• wives (dāra)
• kingdom (rājya)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse underscores how war and political ambition can culminate in layered ruin—loss of family, loss of happiness, and loss of sovereignty—warning that the collapse of dharmic restraint brings repeated suffering.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya, reporting the events of the Kurukṣetra war, voices a lamenting fear that ‘we’ (the Kuru side) may again be reduced to a condition of utter deprivation—without family, without joy, and with the kingdom destroyed.