Shloka 7

Devanagari script

वसन्ति तेषु सत्त्वानि नानाजातीनि सर्वश: । इदं तु भारतं वर्ष ततो हैमवतं परम्‌,उनमें सब ओर नाना जातियोंके प्राणी निवास करते हैं, उनमेंसे यह भारतवर्ष है। इसके बाद हिमालयसे उत्तर हैमवतवर्ष है

Transliteration

vasanti teṣu sattvāni nānājātīni sarvaśaḥ | idaṃ tu bhārataṃ varṣa tato haimavataṃ param ||

Translation

ആ പ്രദേശങ്ങളിൽ എല്ലാദിക്കുകളിലും നാനാജാതികളായ ജീവികൾ വസിക്കുന്നു. അവയിൽ ഇത് ‘ഭാരതവർഷം’; ഇതിന് അപ്പുറം, ഹിമാലയത്തിന്റെ വടക്കായി ‘ഹൈമവതവർഷം’ സ്ഥിതിചെയ്യുന്നു.

Word by Word

वसन्तिdwell, reside

तेषुin them

सत्त्वानिbeings, creatures

नानाvarious, diverse

जातीनिkinds, species

सर्वशःeverywhere, on all sides

इदम्this

तुbut, however

भारतंBharata (named Bharata)

वर्षम्region, land (varṣa)

ततःthereafter, from that

हैमवतंHaimavata (pertaining to Himavat/Himalaya)

परम्further, beyond; northern

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

Bhārata-varṣa

Himālaya

Haimavata-varṣa

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?

The verse frames Bhārata within a wider world of diverse beings and regions, emphasizing plurality of life and the ordered description of lands; it is descriptive rather than prescriptive, grounding the epic’s events in a broader cosmographic context.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya continues a geographical/cosmological account, noting that many kinds of beings inhabit various regions, identifying Bhārata-varṣa, and then pointing to the Haimavata region lying beyond (to the north of) the Himālaya.