Ashramavasika Parva Adhyaya 36 Shloka 13 - Mahabharata | Burmese | Vedapath

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Shloka 13

Vyāsa’s Boon-Offer and Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Remorse in the Forest Assembly (आश्रमवासिक पर्व, अध्याय ३६)

Devanagari script

वने स मुनिशि: सर्व: पूज्यमानो महातपा: । त्वगस्थिमात्रशेष: स षण्मासानभवन्नूप:

Transliteration

vane sa muniśiḥ sarvaḥ pūjyamāno mahātapāḥ | tvag-asthi-mātra-śeṣaḥ sa ṣaṇmāsān abhavan nūpaḥ ||

Translation

နာရဒက ပြော၏ — «ထိုတောတွင် နေထိုင်သော ရှင်ရသီအားလုံးက သူ့ကို အထူးဂုဏ်ပြုကြ၏။ မဟာတပသ်ရှင် ဓြတရာရှ္ဋ္ရသည် အသားအရေကပ်နေသော အရိုးဘောင်သာ ကျန်ရစ်သကဲ့သို့ ဖြစ်လာပြီး ထိုအခြေအနေဖြင့် ခြောက်လကြာ နေထိုင်ခဲ့၏»။

Word by Word

वनेin the forest

सःhe

मुनिःthe sage

सर्वैःby all (of them)

पूज्यमानःbeing honored

महातपाःthe great ascetic

त्वक्skin

अस्थिbone

मात्रonly, merely

शेषःremaining

सःhe

षण्मासान्six months (as duration)

अभवत्was, remained; spent (time)

नूपःanklet (reading uncertain in context)

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nārada

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

forest (vana)

sages (munayaḥ/ṛṣayaḥ)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the dharmic ideal that true honor follows inner discipline: when a former king embraces austerity and detachment, even forest sages revere him. It frames late-life renunciation as an ethical transformation from power to self-mastery.

What is happening in the narrative?

Nārada describes Dhṛtarāṣṭra living in the forest among sages. The ascetics honor him, and his body becomes extremely emaciated—only skin and bones—while he continues his austerities for six months.