Mahabharata — Anushasana Parva, Shloka 31

Adhyāya 119: Vyāsa–Kīṭa-saṃvāda

Tapas-bala and karmic ascent across yoni

Devanagari script

यस्माद्‌ ग्रसति चैवायुरहिसकानां महाद्युते । तस्माद्‌ विवर्जयेन्मांसं य इच्छेद्‌ भूतिमात्मन:

Transliteration

yasmād grasati caivāyur ahiṃsakānāṃ mahādyute | tasmād vivarjayen māṃsaṃ ya icched bhūtim ātmanaḥ ||

Translation

ဘီရှ္မက မိန့်ကြားသည်— «အလင်းရောင်ကြီးမားသော မင်းကြီးရေ၊ သတ္တဝါတို့ကို အကြမ်းဖက်သူတို့၏ အသက်တာကာလသည် မိမိတို့၏ အပြစ်ကြောင့်ပင် စုပ်ယူဖျက်ဆီးခံရသည်။ ထို့ကြောင့် မိမိ၏ ကောင်းကျိုးနှင့် စစ်မှန်သော စည်းစိမ်ချမ်းသာကို လိုလားသူသည် အသားစားခြင်းကို လုံးဝ စွန့်လွှတ်သင့်သည်»။

Word by Word

• यस्मात्: because of which/from which
• यस्मात्: Apadana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• ग्रसति: devours, consumes
• Type: Verb
• Root: ग्रस्
• Form: Present, 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• एव: indeed, just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• आयुः: lifespan, life
• आयुः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: आयुस्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• अहिंसकानाम्: of the non-violent (persons)
• अहिंसकानाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Noun/Adjective
• Root: अहिंसक
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• महाद्युते: O great-splendored one
• Type: Noun (vocative epithet)
• Root: महाद्युति
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• तस्मात्: therefore, from that reason
• तस्मात्: Apadana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Ablative, Singular

• विवर्जयेत्: should avoid, should give up
• Type: Verb
• Root: विवर्ज्
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• मांसम्: meat
• मांसम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मांस
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• यः: who (he who)
• यः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• इच्छेत्: should desire, would wish
• Type: Verb
• Root: इष्
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• भूतिम्: welfare, prosperity
• भूतिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूति
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• आत्मनः: of oneself
• आत्मनः: Sambandha
• Type: Noun/Pronoun (reflexive)
• Root: आत्मन्
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• King (addressed as mahādyuti; contextually Yudhishthira)