Shloka 14

Hanūmān’s Embrace, Counsel, and Promise to Amplify Bhīma’s Battle-Roar

Gandhamādana Continuation

Devanagari script

न सामकरग्यजुर्वर्णा: क्रिया नासीच्च मानवी | अभिध्याय फल तत्र धर्म: संन्यास एव च,ऋतक्‌, साम और यजुर्वेदके मन्त्रवर्णोका पृथक्‌-पृथक्‌ विभाग नहीं था। कोई मानवी क्रिया (कृषि आदि) भी नहीं होती थी। उस समय चिन्तन करनेमात्रसे सबको अभीष्ट फलकी प्राप्ति हो जाती थी। सत्ययुगमें एक ही धर्म था, स्वार्थका त्याग

Transliteration

na sāmakaṛg-yajurvarṇāḥ kriyā nāsīc ca mānavī | abhidhyāya phalaṃ tatra dharmaḥ saṃnyāsa eva ca ||

Translation

ഭീമൻ പറഞ്ഞു— ആ യുഗത്തിൽ ഋക്‌, സാമ, യജുർവേദ മന്ത്രവർണങ്ങൾക്ക് വേർതിരിച്ച വിഭാഗീകരണം ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നില്ല; കൃഷി മുതലായ മനുഷ്യവൃത്തികളും ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നില്ല. മനസ്സിൽ ഉദ്ദേശിച്ച് ധ്യാനിച്ചാൽ മാത്രം എല്ലാവർക്കും അഭീഷ്ടഫലം ലഭിച്ചു. കൃത (സത്യ) യുഗത്തിൽ ഒരേയൊരു ധർമ്മം—സന്ന്യാസം, സ്വാർത്ഥത്യാഗം.

Word by Word

• {'na': 'not', 'sāmakaṛg-yajur-varṇāḥ': 'the (distinct) mantra-classes of the Sāma-, Ṛk-, and Yajur-veda', 'varṇāḥ': 'classes, divisions

• (here) categories of Vedic utterances', 'kriyā': 'activity, work, practical undertaking', 'nāsīt': 'was not', 'ca': 'and', 'mānavī': 'human

• pertaining to human beings (e.g., worldly labor such as farming)', 'abhidhyāya': 'by thinking upon, by mental intention/resolve', 'phalam': 'fruit, result', 'tatra': 'there, in that time/age', 'dharmaḥ': 'dharma

• righteous order/duty/way of life', 'saṃnyāsaḥ': 'renunciation

• relinquishment (especially of possessiveness and self-interest)', 'eva': 'alone, indeed, only', 'ṛk': 'the Ṛgveda (hymns)', 'sāma': 'the Sāmaveda (chants)', 'yajus': 'the Yajurveda (sacrificial formulae)'}

Speaker

भीम उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīma
• Ṛgveda
• Sāmaveda
• Yajurveda
• Kṛtayuga (Satya-yuga)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse presents the Kṛtayuga ideal: dharma is unified and centered on saṃnyāsa—renouncing selfish grasping. When inner purity and intention are paramount, external ritual divisions and worldly labor recede, and results are said to arise from mere resolve.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīma is describing characteristics of the earliest age (Kṛta/Satya yuga), contrasting it with later ages: there were no differentiated Vedic mantra-categories, no ordinary human economic activities like farming, and desired outcomes were attained simply through contemplation or intention.