Shloka 5

Devanagari script

पज्चावयवयुक्तस्य वाक्यस्य गुणदोषवित्‌ । उत्तरोत्तरवक्ता च वदतो5पि बृहस्पते:,इति श्रीमहा भारते सभापर्वणि लोकपालसभाख्यानपर्वणि नारदप्रश्नमुखेन राजधर्मानुशासने पञ्चमो<5 ध्याय: इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत सभापवके अन्तर्गत लोकपालयभाख्यानपर्वमें नारदजीके द्वारा प्रश्नके व्याजसे राजधर्मका उपदेशविषयक पाँचवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

pañcāvayavayuktasya vākyasya guṇadoṣavit | uttarottaravaktā ca vadato 'pi bṛhaspateḥ ||

Translation

ဝိုင်ရှမ္ပာယနက ပြောသည်– «သူသည် အင်္ဂါငါးပါးဖြင့် စနစ်တကျ ဖွဲ့စည်းထားသော စကား၏ အားသာချက်နှင့် ချို့ယွင်းချက်ကို သိမြင်သူ ဖြစ်၏။ ထို့ပြင် ပြောသူက ဘృဟස්ပတိ (Bṛhaspati) ကိုယ်တိုင်ဖြစ်နေသော်လည်း ပိုမိုသင့်လျော်၍ ပိုမိုမြင့်မားသော ပြန်လည်တုံ့ပြန်ချက်များကို အဆင့်ဆင့် ထုတ်ပြောနိုင်သူ ဖြစ်၏»။

Word by Word

• {'pañcāvayava-yukta': 'endowed with five members

• a statement structured in five parts (as in formal reasoning)', 'vākya': 'speech

• sentence', 'guṇa': 'merit

• good quality', 'doṣa': 'fault

• flaw', 'vit': 'knower

• one who understands', 'uttarottara': 'successively better

• increasingly apt (reply after reply)', 'vaktā': 'speaker

• one who speaks', 'ca': 'and', "vadato 'pi": 'even while (someone) is speaking

• even of one who speaks', 'bṛhaspati': 'Bṛhaspati, preceptor of the gods

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Bṛhaspati

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A ruler (and any counselor) should master well-structured speech, discern its strengths and weaknesses, and be capable of progressively better, context-appropriate replies—an ideal of disciplined reasoning and ethical communication.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Lokapāla-sabhākhyāna context, Vaiśampāyana continues describing the standards of wise counsel and discourse within the instruction on royal duty, praising a person whose argumentative speech is formally complete and whose responses remain superior even against the best of speakers like Bṛhaspati.