Shloka 11

Devanagari script

प्रियं तु मे स्थात्‌ सुमहत्कृतं चक्रगदाधर । श्रीमन्‌ प्रीतेन मनसा सर्व यादवनन्दन

Transliteration

priyaṃ tu me sthāt sumahat kṛtaṃ cakragadādhara | śrīman prītena manasā sarva yādavanandana ||

Translation

Yudhiṣṭhira berkata: “Wahai pemegang cakra dan gada, apa yang telah engkau lakukan amatlah kusayangi dan sangat besar manfaatnya bagiku. Wahai yang mulia lagi bercahaya, wahai kegembiraan kaum Yādava—terimalah semuanya ini dengan hati yang redha dan berkenan.”

Word by Word

प्रियम्dear/pleasing (thing)

तुbut/indeed

मेto me/for me; my

स्थात्may it be / may it stand

सुमहत्very great

कृतम्done; a deed

चand

चक्रगदाधरO bearer of the discus and mace

श्रीमन्O illustrious one

प्रीतेनwith pleased (state)

मनसाwith (the) mind

सर्वO all(-pervading)/O all

यादवनन्दनO delight of the Yadavas

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Kṛṣṇa (Cakragadādhara, Yādavanandana)

Yādavas

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?

The verse foregrounds dharmic gratitude and humility: a righteous king acknowledges benefaction, honors the benefactor with respectful epithets, and requests acceptance in a spirit of goodwill—ethical conduct grounded in appreciative recognition rather than entitlement.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira addresses Kṛṣṇa with reverence, praising Kṛṣṇa’s great and welcome deed and urging him—‘with a pleased mind’—to accept what is being offered or arranged in this context of post-war restoration and royal duty.