Shloka 5

अरण्यवृत्ति-वैराग्योपदेशः | Forest Discipline and the Program of Non-Attachment

Devanagari script

जुद्वानोडग्निं यथाकालमुभौ कालावुपस्पृशन्‌ | कृश: परिमिताहारश्चर्मचीरजटाधर:

Transliteration

yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | juhvāno 'gnim yathākālam ubhau kālāv upaspṛśan | kṛśaḥ parimitāhāraś carmacīrajāṭādharaḥ ||

Translation

ଯୁଧିଷ୍ଠିର କହିଲେ— ଦୁଇ ସନ୍ଧ୍ୟାକାଳରେ ସ୍ନାନ କରି, ଯଥାସମୟ ଅଗ୍ନିହୋତ୍ର କରିବି; ପରିମିତ ଆହାରରେ ଦେହକୁ କୃଶ କରିଦେବି। ମୃଗଚର୍ମ ଓ ବଲ୍କଳ ଧାରଣ କରି, ଶିରେ ଜଟା ରଖିବି।

Word by Word

• जुह्वानः: offering (sacrificing)
• जुह्वानः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: हु (धातु) → जुह्वान (शतृ-प्रत्यय)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उदग्निम्: the sacred fire (for oblations)
• उदग्निम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: उदग्नि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• यथा: according to, as
• यथा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• कालम्: time
• कालम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: काल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• उभौ: both
• उभौ: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उभ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Dual

• कालौ: the two times (morning and evening)
• कालौ: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: काल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Dual

• उपस्पृशन्: performing ablution (touching water)
• उपस्पृशन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्पृश् (धातु) + उप- (उपसर्ग) → उपस्पृश् (शतृ-प्रत्यय)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• कृशः: emaciated, lean
• कृशः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कृश (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• परिमिताहारः: one whose food is measured/limited
• परिमिताहारः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: परिमित + आहार (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• चर्मचीरजटाधरः: wearer of skin, bark-garments, and matted hair
• चर्मचीरजटाधरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: चर्म + चीर + जटा + धर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Agni (sacred fire)
• Agnihotra (fire-ritual)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse emphasizes disciplined dharma through regulated daily rites (purification and agnihotra) and restraint (measured diet, ascetic attire), presenting self-control and ritual order as ethical means to inner purification.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira declares his intention to adopt an ascetic regimen: bathing at the two daily ritual times, maintaining the fire-offering at the proper hours, eating sparingly to become lean, and wearing the traditional marks of a renunciant (deer-skin, bark garments, and matted hair).