Shloka 10

Devanagari script

“कभी शारीरिक व्याधिसे मानसिक व्याधि होती है, इसमें संशय नहीं है। इसी प्रकार कभी मानसिक व्याधिसे शारीरिक व्याधिका होना भी निश्चित ही है ।। शारीरं मानसं दुःखं यो5तीतमनुशोचति । दुःखेन लभते दुःखं द्वावनर्थो च विन्दति

Transliteration

śārīraṃ mānasaṃ duḥkhaṃ yo 'tītam anuśocati | duḥkhena labhate duḥkhaṃ dvāv anarthau ca vindati ||

Translation

വൈശമ്പായനൻ പറഞ്ഞു—കഴിഞ്ഞുപോയ ശാരീരികമോ മാനസികമോ ആയ ദുഃഖത്തെ വീണ്ടും വീണ്ടും അനുഷോചിക്കുന്നവൻ, ദുഃഖംകൊണ്ടുതന്നെ ദുഃഖം നേടുന്നു; അവൻ രണ്ടു അനർത്ഥങ്ങൾ അനുഭവിക്കുന്നു—പുനർവേദനയും അധികഹാനിയും.

Word by Word

शारीरम्bodily (pain/suffering)

मानसम्mental (pain/suffering)

दुःखम्sorrow, suffering

यःwho

अतीतम्past, gone-by

अनुशोचतिgrieves over, laments

दुःखेनby/through sorrow

लभतेobtains, gets

दुःखम्sorrow

द्वौtwo

अनर्थौmisfortunes, harms

चand

विन्दतिfinds, meets with

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

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?

Dwelling on past pain—physical or mental—does not heal it; it generates fresh sorrow. The verse advises restraint of rumination, since grief over what has passed becomes a new cause of suffering and leads to compounded harm.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the didactic discourse of the Śānti Parva, Vaiśampāyana presents a general ethical-psychological maxim: bodily and mental afflictions are interconnected, and lamenting past distress perpetuates and increases one’s misery.