Shloka 19

Devanagari script

न म्रियेयुर्न जीर्येयु: सर्वे स्यु: सार्वकामिका:

Transliteration

na mriyeyur na jīryeyuḥ sarve syuḥ sārvakāmikāḥ

Translation

“Tiada seorang pun akan mati, dan tiada pula yang menjadi tua; semua makhluk akan sentiasa dipenuhi segala kehendak.”

Word by Word

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• म्रियेयुः: would die
• Type: Verb
• Root: मृ
• Form: Vidhi-linga (optative), Atmanepada, 3rd, plural

• न: nor / not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• जीर्येयुः: would grow old / decay
• Type: Verb
• Root: जॄ
• Form: Vidhi-linga (optative), Atmanepada, 3rd, plural

• सर्वे: all (of them)
• सर्वे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

• स्युः: would be
• Type: Verb
• Root: अस्
• Form: Vidhi-linga (optative), Parasmaipada, 3rd, plural

• सार्वकामिकाः: having all desires fulfilled / granting all wishes
• सार्वकामिकाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सार्वकामिक
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

Speaker

व्याध उवाच

Characters & Entities

• व्याध (the hunter)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse imagines an ideal condition where death, aging, and lack are absent—highlighting that ordinary life is defined by mortality and decay, and that craving for complete satisfaction is a powerful human impulse often used to frame ethical reflection on what truly constitutes well-being.

What is happening in the narrative?

The hunter (Vyādha), speaking in a didactic context, presents a hypothetical world in which everyone would neither die nor age and would have every desire fulfilled—an illustrative statement used to advance his moral reasoning about human life and values.