Mahabharata 3.147.95 — Vana Parva, Adhyaya 147, Shloka 95

Bhīmasena–Hanūmān Saṃvāda: The Tail Test and the Divine Path

Devanagari script

स्वागतं सर्वथैवेह तवाद्य मनुजर्षभ । इमान्यमृतकल्पानि मूलानि च फलानि च

Transliteration

svāgataṁ sarvathaiveha tavādya manujarṣabha | imāny amṛtakalpāni mūlāni ca phalāni ca, mānavaśiromaṇe! ājya iha sarvaprakāreṇa tumhārā svāgata hai | ye amṛtake samāna mīṭhe phala-mūla khākara yahīṁse lauṭa jāo, anyathā vyartha hī tumhāre prāṇa saṅkaṭameṁ paṛa jāyāṁge | narapuṅgava! yadi merā kathana hitakara jān paṛe to ise avaśya māno

Translation

വൈശമ്പായനൻ പറഞ്ഞു— ഹേ മനുജർഷഭാ, ഇന്ന് ഇവിടെ നിനക്ക് സർവ്വവിധത്തിലും സ്വാഗതം. ഇവ അമൃതസമമായ കിഴങ്ങുകളും ഫലങ്ങളും; ഇവ സ്വീകരിച്ച് ഇവിടെ നിന്നുതന്നെ മടങ്ങുക. അല്ലെങ്കിൽ വ്യർത്ഥമായി നിന്റെ ജീവൻ അപകടത്തിലാകും. ഹേ നരപുംഗവ, എന്റെ വാക്ക് ഹിതകരമെന്ന് തോന്നിയാൽ നിർബന്ധമായി അംഗീകരിക്കൂ.

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'svāgatam', 'definition': 'welcome

• hospitable reception'}, {'term': 'sarvathā', 'definition': 'in every way

• entirely'}, {'term': 'iha', 'definition': 'here

• in this place'}, {'term': 'tava adya', 'definition': 'for you today

• to you on this day'}, {'term': 'manujarṣabha', 'definition': 'best of men (lit. ‘bull among men’)

• an honorific for a hero'}, {'term': 'amṛtakalpa', 'definition': 'like nectar

• exceedingly sweet/wholesome'}, {'term': 'mūlāni', 'definition': 'roots

• edible tubers/forest roots'}, {'term': 'phalāni', 'definition': 'fruits'}, {'term': 'mānavaśiromaṇi', 'definition': 'crest-jewel among humans

• foremost of men'}, {'term': 'prāṇa', 'definition': 'life-breath

• vital force'}, {'term': 'saṅkaṭa', 'definition': 'danger

• peril'}, {'term': 'narapuṅgava', 'definition': 'bull among men

• eminent man/warrior'}, {'term': 'hitakara', 'definition': 'beneficial

• conducive to welfare'}, {'term': 'kathana', 'definition': 'statement

• advice'}, {'term': 'māna (māno)', 'definition': 'accept

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Offer hospitality and give timely, welfare-oriented counsel: accept what sustains life (simple forest food) and avoid needless risk; heeding beneficial advice is presented as a mark of wisdom and dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator reports a speaker welcoming a heroic visitor, offering nectar-like roots and fruits, and urging him to turn back after eating, warning that proceeding further would place his life in unnecessary danger.