Shloka 14

Gārhasthya-Śreṣṭhatā and Kṣatriya-Daṇḍadhāraṇa

Householder Primacy and the Royal Duty of Punishment

Devanagari script

एता विद्या: क्षत्रियाणां राजन्‌ संसिद्धिकारिका: । अपि गाथामिमां चापि बृहस्पतिरगायत,राजन! ये विद्याएँ (धार्मिक क्रियाएँ) क्षत्रियोंको सदा सिद्धि प्रदान करनेवाली हैं। इस विषयमें बृहस्पतिजीने इस गाथाका भी गान किया है

Transliteration

etā vidyāḥ kṣatriyāṇāṃ rājan saṃsiddhikārikāḥ | api gāthām imāṃ cāpi bṛhaspatir agāyat ||

Translation

ວະຍາສະ ກ່າວວ່າ: «ໂອ ພະຣາຊາ, ວິໄນ ແລະ ໜ້າທີ່ອັນສັກສິດເຫຼົ່ານີ້ ແມ່ນສິ່ງທີ່ນຳໃຫ້ວັນນະກະສັດ (kṣatriya) ບັນລຸຄວາມສຳເລັດແນ່ນອນ. ໃນເລື່ອງນີ້ເອງ ພຣະບຣິຫັດສະປະຕິ ເຄີຍຂັບຮ້ອງຄາຖາປະເພນີບົດໜຶ່ງ»។

Word by Word

एताःthese

विद्याःknowledges; disciplines; rites

क्षत्रियाणाम्of kshatriyas

राजन्O king

संसिद्धिकारिकाःbringing complete success

अपिalso; even

गाथाम्a verse; a gatha

इमाम्this

चand

अपिalso

बृहस्पतिःBrihaspati

अगायत्sang; recited

राजन्O king

Speaker

व्यास उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vyāsa

Bṛhaspati

rājan (the king addressed)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

That the kṣatriya’s true ‘success’ (saṃsiddhi) comes from adherence to the proper disciplines and duties—ethical, ritual, and political—and that this principle is supported by authoritative tradition, here attributed to Bṛhaspati.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vyāsa addresses a king and, after listing or indicating the relevant kṣatriya disciplines, introduces an authoritative supporting quotation: a gāthā said to have been sung by Bṛhaspati on the same topic.