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Shloka 23

पञ्चवर्णोत्पत्तिः — The Origin of the Five-Colored Fiery Being and Ritual-Disruptor Lineages

यथाश्रुतिरियं ब्रह्मन्‌ू जीव: किल सनातन: । शरीरमध्ृर॒वं लोके सर्वेषां प्राणिनामिह,विप्रवर! श्रुतिके अनुसार यह जीवात्मा निश्चय ही सनातन है और इस संसारमें समस्त प्राणियोंका शरीर नश्वर है

yathāśrutir iyaṃ brahman jīvaḥ kila sanātanaḥ | śarīram adhruvaṃ loke sarveṣāṃ prāṇinām iha ||

ഹേ വിപ്രവരാ! ശ്രുതിപ്രകാരം ഈ ജീവൻ നിശ്ചയമായും സനാതനൻ; എന്നാൽ ഈ ലോകത്ത് എല്ലാ പ്രാണികളുടെയും ശരീരം അധ്രുവം—നശ്വരം—ആകുന്നു.

यथाas, according to
यथा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootयथा
श्रुतिःscriptural teaching, hearing (revelation)
श्रुतिः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootश्रुति
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
इयम्this
इयम्:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootइदम्
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
ब्रह्मन्O Brahmin (sage)
ब्रह्मन्:
TypeNoun
Rootब्रह्मन्
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular
जीवःthe living self, soul
जीवः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootजीव
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
किलindeed, it is said
किल:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootकिल
सनातनःeternal
सनातनः:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootसनातन
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
शरीरम्body
शरीरम्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootशरीर
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
अध्रुवम्unstable, impermanent
अध्रुवम्:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootअध्रुव
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
लोकेin the world
लोके:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootलोक
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
सर्वेषाम्of all
सर्वेषाम्:
TypeAdjective
Rootसर्व
FormMasculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural
प्राणिनाम्of living beings
प्राणिनाम्:
TypeNoun
Rootप्राणिन्
FormMasculine, Genitive, Plural
इहhere (in this world)
इह:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootइह
विप्रवरO best of Brahmins
विप्रवर:
TypeNoun
Rootविप्रवर
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular

व्याध उवाच

V
vyādha (the hunter, speaker)
B
brāhmaṇa (addressed as brahman/viprvara)

Educational Q&A

Śruti-based discernment: the jīva (self) is eternal, while the body is impermanent; ethical living requires detachment from bodily identification and steadiness in dharma.

In the Vyādha’s instruction to a Brahmin, the hunter cites scriptural tradition to reframe the listener’s outlook: do not mistake the perishable body for the enduring self, and let this insight guide conduct.