Shloka 55

Devanagari script

अवीनां पित्तभेदश्न सर्वेषामिति न: श्रुतम्‌ । शुकानामपि सर्वेषां हिक्किका प्रोच्यते ज्वर:

Transliteration

avīnāṃ pittabhedaś ca sarveṣām iti naḥ śrutam | śukānām api sarveṣāṃ hikkikā procyate jvaraḥ ||

Translation

ଭୀଷ୍ମ କହିଲେ—ଆମେ ଶୁଣିଛୁ, ସମସ୍ତ ଭେଡ଼ାମାନଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ‘ପିତ୍ତଭେଦ’ ନାମକ ରୋଗଟି ହିଁ ଜ୍ୱର ବୋଲି ଧରାଯାଏ। ଏବଂ ସମସ୍ତ ଟିଆପକ୍ଷୀଙ୍କ ପାଇଁ ହିକ୍କା (ହିଚକି) କୁ ହିଁ ଜ୍ୱର ବୋଲି କୁହାଯାଇଛି।

Word by Word

• अवीनाम्: of sheep
• अवीनाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अवि
• Form: Feminine, Genitive, Plural

• पित्तभेदः: bile-disorder (lit. bile-splitting)
• पित्तभेदः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पित्तभेद
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सर्वेषाम्: of all (of them)
• सर्वेषाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• इति: thus (quotative)
• इति: Karma
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• नः: of us / to us
• नः: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Genitive, Plural

• श्रुतम्: heard
• श्रुतम्: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: श्रु
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• शुकानाम्: of parrots
• शुकानाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शुक
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• अपि: also/even
• अपि: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• सर्वेषाम्: of all (of them)
• सर्वेषाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• हिक्किका: hiccup
• हिक्किका: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: हिक्किका
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रोच्यते: is said/called
• प्रोच्यते: Kriya
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्र+वच्
• Form: Lat (present), Atmanepada, Passive, 3rd, Singular

• ज्वरः: fever
• ज्वरः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: ज्वर
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• sheep (avi)
• parrots (śuka)
• pittabheda (a named ailment)
• hiccup (hikkikā)
• fever (jvara)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Bhishma conveys a piece of received traditional knowledge: different species may have characteristic ailments that are conventionally classified under ‘fever’ (jvara). The verse illustrates how diagnostic categories can be applied by customary association rather than by a single uniform symptom-set.

What is happening in the narrative?

Within Bhishma’s long instructional discourse in the Shanti Parva, he cites proverbial/medical observations about animals—sheep and parrots—to support a broader explanatory point about how conditions are named and understood in traditional learning.