Shloka 10

जयद्रथ-निग्रहः — Jayadratha Restrained, Shamed, and Released

Devanagari script

बद्धन्नपानसंयुक्त: सुसमृद्धगुणान्वित: । प्रवर्ततां महायज्ञस्तवापि भरतर्षभ,“भरतश्रेष्ठ! तुम्हारा महायज्ञ भी प्रचुर अन्नपानकी सामग्रीसे युक्त और अत्यन्त समृद्धिशाली गुणोंसे सम्पन्न हो”

Transliteration

baddhannapānasaṁyuktaḥ susamṛddhaguṇānvitaḥ | pravartatāṁ mahāyajñas tavāpi bharatarṣabha ||

Translation

ഹേ ഭരതർഷഭാ! നിന്റെ മഹായാഗവും ധാരാളം അന്നപാനങ്ങളാൽ സമ്പന്നമായും, ഉത്തമഗുണസമൃദ്ധിയാൽ അനുഗൃഹീതമായും, ശുഭമായി പ്രവൃത്തിക്കട്ടെ.

Word by Word

बद्धprovided/secured (well-supplied)

अन्नपानसंयुक्तःendowed with food and drink

सुसमृद्धगुणान्वितःpossessing excellently abundant qualities

प्रवर्तताम्may it proceed / let it be undertaken

महायज्ञःthe great sacrifice

तवof you / your

अपिalso

भरतर्षभO bull among the Bharatas

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Bharatarṣabha (honorific addressee, a foremost Bharata/Kuru)

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A great sacrifice should be supported by both material sufficiency (food and drink for participants and guests) and inner excellence (guṇas such as discipline, purity, generosity, and right intention). Prosperity is presented as ethically meaningful when it sustains dharmic public action.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana offers a formal benediction to a Bharata prince, wishing that his mahāyajña may commence and continue successfully, fully provisioned and marked by flourishing virtues—an auspicious endorsement of the rite’s proper conduct and outcome.