Shloka 29

Devanagari script

व्रजन्तु भ्रातरस्तेडमी यदि सत्याभिसंधिन: । मत्परित्राणजं धर्ममिहैव त्वमवाप्नरुहि,तुम्हारे ये भाई यदि सत्यधर्मके पालनका आग्रह रखकर वनमें जा रहे हैं तो जाय; तुम यहीं रहकर मेरी रक्षाजनित धर्मका लाभ लो

Transliteration

vrajantu bhrātaras te ’mī yadi satyābhisandhinaḥ | mat-paritrāṇajaṃ dharmam ihaiva tvam avāpnuhi ||

Translation

ನಿನ್ನ ಈ ಸಹೋದರರು ಸತ್ಯಧರ್ಮವನ್ನು ಪಾಲಿಸುವ ದೃಢ ಸಂಕಲ್ಪದಿಂದ ವನಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗುತ್ತಿದ್ದರೆ ಹೋಗಲಿ; ಆದರೆ ನೀನು ಇಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಉಳಿದು ನನ್ನನ್ನು ರಕ್ಷಿಸುವುದರಿಂದ ಉಂಟಾಗುವ ಧರ್ಮಫಲವನ್ನು ಇಲ್ಲಿಯೇ ಪಡೆಯು.

Word by Word

व्रजन्तुlet (them) go

भ्रातरःbrothers

तेthose/your (they)

अमीthese (yonder) ones

यदिif

सत्याभिसन्धिनःintent on truth / having true resolve

मत्my

परित्राणजम्arising from protection/rescue

धर्मम्duty / righteousness

इहhere

एवindeed / just

त्वम्you

अवाप्नुहिobtain / receive

Speaker

वैशमग्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

brothers (bhrātaraḥ)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights a dharma-principle: protecting one who depends on you (or whom you are bound to safeguard) is itself a source of religious merit. Truthfulness is honored, yet dharma is also contextual—one may fulfill righteousness by staying to protect rather than by following others into hardship.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker frames a choice: if the brothers are determined to uphold truth by going away (e.g., to the forest), they may do so; but the addressed person is urged to remain and gain the merit of dharma specifically connected with providing protection to the speaker.