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Shloka 36

Dharma-śaṅkā-nivāraṇa: Yudhiṣṭhira’s Response on Karma-Phala and Trust in Dharma

तथैव धाता भूतानामिष्टानिष्टफलप्रद: । यदि न स्यान्न भूतानां कृषपणो नाम कश्नन,क्योंकि यदि ईश्वर सब प्राणियोंको इष्ट-अनिष्टरूप फल नहीं देते तो उन प्राणियोंमेंसे कोई भी दीन नहीं होता

tathaiva dhātā bhūtānām iṣṭāniṣṭaphalapradaḥ | yadi na syān na bhūtānāṁ kṛpaṇo nāma kaścana ||

ಯುಧಿಷ್ಠಿರನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—“ಅದೇ ರೀತಿ ಭೂತಗಳ ಧಾತಾ (ವಿಧಾತಾ) ಇಷ್ಟ ಮತ್ತು ಅನಿಷ್ಟ—ಎರಡೂ ಫಲಗಳನ್ನು ನೀಡುವವನು. ಅವನು ಹಾಗಿರದಿದ್ದರೆ, ಜೀವಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ‘ಕೃಶಪಣ’—ದೀನ ಅಥವಾ ದರಿದ್ರ—ಎಂದು ಕರೆಯಲ್ಪಡುವವನು ಯಾರೂ ಇರಲಿಲ್ಲ; ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಮಿಶ್ರ ಫಲಗಳ ನಿಯೋಜನೆಯೇ ಕೆಲವರನ್ನು ಕಷ್ಟಕ್ಕೆ ತಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ.”

तथाthus, in the same way
तथा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतथा
एवindeed, just
एव:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव
धाताthe Creator, Ordainer
धाता:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootधातृ
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
भूतानाम्of beings
भूतानाम्:
TypeNoun
Rootभूत
FormNeuter, Genitive, Plural
इष्टdesired (things/results)
इष्ट:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootइष्ट
FormNeuter, Accusative, Plural
अनिष्टundesired (things/results)
अनिष्ट:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootअनिष्ट
FormNeuter, Accusative, Plural
फलfruits, results
फल:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootफल
FormNeuter, Accusative, Plural
प्रदःgiver, bestower
प्रदः:
TypeAdjective
Rootप्रद
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
यदिif
यदि:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootयदि
not
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
स्यात्would be
स्यात्:
TypeVerb
Rootअस्
FormOptative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada
not
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
भूतानाम्of beings
भूतानाम्:
TypeNoun
Rootभूत
FormNeuter, Genitive, Plural
कृशपणःa poor/wretched person
कृशपणः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootकृशपण
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
नामby name; called
नाम:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootनाम
कश्चनanyone (at all)
कश्चन:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootकश्चन
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular

युधिछिर उवाच

Y
Yudhiṣṭhira
D
Dhātā (the Ordainer/Creator)

Educational Q&A

The verse frames worldly inequality and suffering as arising from the dispensation of mixed outcomes (iṣṭa/aniṣṭa phala). A moral order operates in which beings receive pleasant and unpleasant results; without such allotment, the category of the ‘wretched’ (kṛpaṇa) would not arise.

Yudhiṣṭhira is reasoning about the structure of moral causality and divine governance: the cosmic Ordainer is described as the bestower of both favorable and unfavorable fruits, explaining why some beings experience hardship while others do not.