Shloka 65

भीष्मशिबिरगमनम् — Duryodhana’s Visit to Bhīṣma’s Camp and the Command Appeal

Devanagari script

सम्बभूव महाराज समवाप च यौवनम्‌ | माया हि सहजा तेषां वयो रूपं च कामजम्‌

Transliteration

sambabhūva mahārāja samavāpa ca yauvanam | māyā hi sahajā teṣāṃ vayo rūpaṃ ca kāmajam ||

Translation

Disse Sañjaya: Ó rei, ele veio à existência e logo alcançou a juventude. Pois, no caso deles, a ilusão é inata; sua idade e até sua beleza surgem à vontade, nascidas do desejo e não do crescimento comum.

Word by Word

• सम्बभूव: became; came to be
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम् + भू (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (परोक्शभूत/परफेक्ट), प्रथम, एकवचन, परस्मैपद

• महाराज: O great king
• Type: Noun
• Root: महाराज (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सम्बोधन, एकवचन

• समवाप: attained; obtained
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम् + आप् (धातु)
• Form: लिट् (परोक्शभूत/परफेक्ट), प्रथम, एकवचन, परस्मैपद

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• यौवनम्: youth
• यौवनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: यौवन (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• माया: magic; illusion; power of deception
• माया: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: माया (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

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

• सहजा: innate; inborn
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सहज (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• तेषाम्: of them
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुं/स्त्री/नपुंसक (सर्वनाम), षष्ठी, बहुवचन

• वयः: age; stage of life
• वयः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वयस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• रूपम्: form; beauty
• रूपम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: रूप (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• कामजम्: born of desire; produced by love/sexual desire
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कामज (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Mahārāja (Dhṛtarāṣṭra)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the Mahābhārata’s recurring contrast between ordinary human development and beings whose appearance and maturity can be produced by māyā—suggesting that outward form, age, and beauty may be constructed and therefore ethically unreliable as measures of truth or character.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to Dhṛtarāṣṭra that the described figure quickly manifests and reaches youth, explaining that for such beings illusion is natural and that their age and beauty can arise by desire—indicating a magical or non-human mode of embodiment.