Shloka 31

धन-राजधर्म संवादः

Discourse on Wealth and Royal Duty

Devanagari script

एवमेव हि राजानो जयन्ति पृथिवीमिमाम्‌ | जित्वा ममेयं ब्रुवते पुत्रा इव पितुर्धनम्‌

Transliteration

evam eva hi rājāno jayanti pṛthivīm imām | jitvā mameyaṃ bruvate putrā iva pitur dhanam ||

Translation

အာర్జုနက ပြောသည်– «ဤပုံစံအတိုင်းပင် မင်းတို့သည် ဤမြေကြီးကို အနိုင်ယူကြသည်။ အနိုင်ယူပြီးနောက် ‘ဤသည် ငါ့၏’ ဟု ကြေညာကြသည်—သားတို့က ဖခင်၏ ဥစ္စာကို ကိုယ့်ပိုင်ဟု ဆိုသကဲ့သို့ပင်»

Word by Word

• एवम्: thus, in this manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

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

• हि: for, indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• राजानः: kings
• राजानः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• जयन्ति: conquer, win
• Type: Verb
• Root: जि
• Form: Present, Third, Plural, Parasmaipada

• पृथिवीम्: the earth
• पृथिवीम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृथिवी
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• इमाम्: this
• Type: Adjective
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• जित्वा: having conquered
• Type: Verb
• Root: जि
• Form: Absolutive (त्वा), Active

• मम: of me, my
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: Genitive, Singular

• इयम्: this (she/it)
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• ब्रुवते: say, declare
• Type: Verb
• Root: ब्रू
• Form: Present, Third, Plural, Atmanepada

• पुत्राः: sons
• पुत्राः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुत्र
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• इव: like, as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

• पितुः: of the father
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितृ
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• धनम्: wealth, property
• धनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: धन
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

Speaker

अर्जुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Arjuna
• kings (rājānaḥ)
• earth/realm (pṛthivī)
• sons (putrāḥ)
• father (pitṛ)