Shloka 15

Devanagari script

नारदं प्रत्युवाचेदं धर्मराजो महामना: । सभा: कथय ता: सर्वा: श्रोतुमिच्छामहे वयम्‌

Transliteration

nāradaṃ pratyuvācedaṃ dharmarājo mahāmanāḥ | sabhāḥ kathaya tāḥ sarvāḥ śrotum icchāmahe vayam ||

Translation

ਨਾਰਦ ਜੀ ਦੇ ਇਹ ਕਹਿਣ ਤੇ ਮਹਾਮਨਸਵੀ ਧਰਮਰਾਜ ਯੁਧਿਸ਼ਠਿਰ ਨੇ ਭਰਾਵਾਂ ਅਤੇ ਸ਼੍ਰੇਸ਼ਠ ਬ੍ਰਾਹਮਣਾਂ ਸਮੇਤ ਹੱਥ ਜੋੜ ਕੇ ਕਿਹਾ— “ਮਹਰਿਸ਼ੇ! ਅਸੀਂ ਸਭ ਉਹਨਾਂ ਦਿਵ੍ਯ ਸਭਾ-ਮੰਡਪਾਂ ਦਾ ਵਰਣਨ ਸੁਣਨਾ ਚਾਹੁੰਦੇ ਹਾਂ। ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਬਾਰੇ ਸਭ ਕੁਝ ਦੱਸੋ।”

Word by Word

• {'nāradam': 'Nārada (the sage), accusative singular', 'pratyuvāca': 'replied

• spoke in response', 'idam': 'this (statement)', 'dharmarājaḥ': 'the king of dharma

• epithet of Yudhiṣṭhira', 'mahāmanāḥ': 'great-souled, noble-minded', 'sabhāḥ': 'assembly-halls

• royal/celestial courts (plural)', 'kathaya': 'tell, narrate (imperative)', 'tāḥ': 'those (feminine plural, referring to sabhāḥ)', 'sarvāḥ': 'all (of them)', 'śrotum': 'to hear (infinitive)', 'icchāmahe': 'we desire, we wish', 'vayam': 'we'}

Speaker

नारद उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Nārada
• Dharmarāja (Yudhiṣṭhira)
• Sabhāḥ (divine assembly-halls)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A dhārmic ruler seeks knowledge through respectful inquiry: Yudhiṣṭhira, embodying restraint and humility, requests a complete account from a sage, showing that governance and ethical life are strengthened by listening to authoritative wisdom.

What is happening in the narrative?

After Nārada’s discourse, Yudhiṣṭhira responds and asks him to narrate all the divine assembly-halls (sabhāḥ). The scene sets up a descriptive account of celestial courts and their splendor, framed as a sage-to-king instruction.