Shloka 7

Adhyaya 60: Self-Assertion, Daiva, and the Rhetoric of Inevitability (उद्योग पर्व)

Devanagari script

तस्मान्न भवता चिन्ता कार्यषा स्यात्‌ कथंचन । दैवेष्वपेक्षका होते शश्वद्‌ भावेषु भारत,“अतः: भरतनन्दन! आप किसी प्रकार भी ऐसी चिन्ता न करें, क्योंकि देवता सदा दिव्यईभाव--शम आदिकी ही अपेक्षा रखते हैं, काम, क्रोध आदि आसुरभावोंकी नहीं

Transliteration

tasmān na bhavatā cintā kāryā syāt kathaṃcana | daiveṣv apekṣakā hote śaśvad bhāveṣu bhārata ||

Translation

ಆದುದರಿಂದ ನೀವು ಯಾವ ರೀತಿಯ ಚಿಂತೆಯನ್ನೂ ಮಾಡಬೇಡಿ. ಓ ಭಾರತಾ! ದೇವರು ಸದಾ ಶಮ, ದಮ ಮೊದಲಾದ ದೈವೀ ಭಾವಗಳನ್ನೇ ಅಪೇಕ್ಷಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ; ಕಾಮ-ಕ್ರೋಧದಂತಹ ಆಸುರ ಪ್ರೇರಣೆಗಳನ್ನು ಅಲ್ಲ।

Word by Word

तस्मात्therefore/from that reason

नnot

भवताby you (sir)

चिन्ताanxiety/worry

कार्याto be done/fit to be done (i.e., should be done)

स्यात्should be/would be

कथंचनin any way/at all

दैवेषुin divine matters/among the divine

अपेक्षकाexpectant/looking for

होतेare/become

शश्वत्always/constantly

भावेषुin dispositions/states (of mind)

भारतO Bhārata

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśaṃpāyana

Bhārata (addressee, descendant of Bharata)

Devas (gods)

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?

Do not be ruled by anxiety; cultivate daivī-bhāvas (divine dispositions like calmness and restraint), since the gods favor such inner qualities rather than impulses like desire and anger.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśaṃpāyana addresses a Bharata-descendant and offers reassurance, redirecting the listener from worry toward maintaining divine-minded virtues that align with dharma.