Shloka 5

Parīkṣit-janma-saṃkaṭa and Kuntī’s petition to Vāsudeva (परिक्षिज्जन्मसंकटं कुन्त्याः प्रार्थना च)

Devanagari script

सर्व स्विष्टतमं कृत्वा विधिवद्‌ वेदपारग:

Transliteration

sarva sviṣṭatamaṁ kṛtvā vidhivad vedapāragaḥ

Translation

Vaiśampāyana berkata: Setelah menyempurnakan, menurut tatacara, persembahan yang paling berkenan dan diterima sepenuhnya dalam segala hal, sang arif yang menyeberangi lautan Veda itu pun meneruskan langkahnya menurut hukum suci.

Word by Word

सर्वम्all, everything

स्विष्टतमम्most well-offered / most perfectly performed (as an oblation/rite)

कृत्वाhaving done, having performed

विधिवत्according to rule, duly

वेदपारगःone who has mastered the Vedas

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Vedas

ritual offering (sviṣṭa)

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 emphasizes dharma as disciplined correctness: sacred acts gain their full ethical and spiritual force when performed vidhivat—according to the proper rule—by one grounded in Vedic knowledge.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator describes a learned Veda-master completing a sacrifice/oblation in the most proper and pleasing way, marking the successful conclusion of a ritual step within the Ashvamedhika Parva’s sacrificial setting.