Shloka 32

Devanagari script

गौतम उवाच ततो<परे भान्ति लोका: सनातना विरजसो वितमस्का विशोका: । आदित्यदेवस्य पदं महात्मन- स्तत्र त्वाहं हस्तिनं यातयिष्ये

Transliteration

gautama uvāca tato 'pare bhānti lokāḥ sanātanā virajasō vitamaskā viśokāḥ | ādityadevasya padaṃ mahātmanaḥ tatra tvāhaṃ hastinaṃ yātayiṣye ||

Translation

ഗൗതമൻ പറഞ്ഞു—ഇതിനപ്പുറം സനാതന ലോകങ്ങൾ പ്രകാശിക്കുന്നു; അവ രജസ്സില്ലാത്തവ, തമസ്സില്ലാത്തവ, ശോകരഹിതമായവ. അവിടെയാണ് മഹാത്മാവായ ആദിത്യദേവന്റെ പദം; ഹേ ഹസ്തീ! ഞാൻ നിന്നെ ആ ലോകത്തേക്ക് നയിക്കും.

Word by Word

गौतमःGautama

उवाचsaid

ततःthereafter/from there

अपरेothers

भान्तिshine/appear

लोकाःworlds/realms

सनातनाःeternal

विरजसःfree from dust/impurity

वितमस्काःfree from darkness

विशोकाःfree from sorrow

आदित्यदेवस्यof the Sun-god

पदम्abode/position

महात्मनःof the great-souled one

तत्रthere

त्वाyou

अहम्I

हस्तिनम्the elephant

यातयिष्येI shall cause to go/lead

Speaker

गौतम उवाच

Characters & Entities

Gautama

Āditya (Sun-god)

elephant (hastin)

eternal worlds (sanātanā lokāḥ)

Āditya’s abode (ādityadevasya padam)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse points to higher, sorrowless realms characterized by freedom from rajas (passionate impurity) and tamas (darkness/ignorance), implying that purification and right guidance can lead a being toward a divine, luminous state associated here with the Sun-god’s abode.

What is happening in the narrative?

Gautama describes the existence of eternal, radiant worlds beyond the present condition and promises to lead the elephant to the station of Āditya, indicating the sage’s compassionate intervention and the elephant’s destined passage to a higher realm.