Shloka 14

Cavana’s Tests of Kuśika and the Queen (अध्याय ५३: च्यवन–कुशिक-परिक्षा)

Devanagari script

जालं॑ ते योजयामासुर्नि:शेषेण जनाधिप । मत्स्योदक॑ समासाद्य तदा भरतसत्तम,भरतवंशशिरोमणि नरेश! उस समय जहाँ मछलियाँ रहती थीं, उतने गहरे जलमें जाकर उन्होंने अपने जालको पूर्णरूपसे फैला दिया

Transliteration

jālaṃ te yojayāmāsur niḥśeṣeṇa janādhipa | matsyodakaṃ samāsādya tadā bharatasattama ||

Translation

ഭീഷ്മൻ പറഞ്ഞു— “ഹേ ജനാധിപാ! അപ്പോൾ അവർ വല പൂർണ്ണമായി വിരിച്ചു. മത്സ്യം ഉള്ള ആഴമുള്ള ജലത്തെത്തിയിട്ട്—ഹേ ഭരതശ്രേഷ്ഠാ—അത് മുഴുവനായി വീശി.”

Word by Word

• जालम्: net
• जालम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: जाल
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• ते: to you
• ते: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Dative, Singular

• योजयामासुः: they set/arranged (they spread/placed)
• योजयामासुः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: युज्
• Form: Perfect (Periphrastic), Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• निःशेषेण: completely, without remainder
• निःशेषेण: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: निःशेष
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• जनाधिप: O lord of people (king)
• जनाधिप: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: जनाधिप
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• मत्स्य-उदकम्: fish-water (water where fish are)
• मत्स्य-उदकम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मत्स्योदक
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• समासाद्य: having reached/approached
• समासाद्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-आ-√सद्
• Form: ल्यप् (absolutive/gerund), Active

• तदा: then
• तदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

• भरतसत्तम: O best of the Bharatas
• भरतसत्तम: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भरतसत्तम
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• janādhipa (the king addressed, i.e., Yudhisthira in context)
• jāla (fishing net)
• matsyodaka (deep fish-inhabited waters)