Shloka 126

Devanagari script

काको बहूनामभवदुच्छिष्टकृतभोजन: । उसके जो बहुत-से अल्पवयस्क यशस्वी पुत्र थे, उन सबकी जूठन खानेवाला एक कौआ भी वहाँ रहा करता था

Transliteration

kāko bahūnām abhavad ucchiṣṭa-kṛta-bhojanaḥ |

Translation

Disse Sañjaya: Havia ali também um corvo—que vivia de comer as sobras de muitos. A imagem ressalta uma dependência degradante dos restos alheios, sugerindo uma queda moral e social em meio ao tumulto ao redor.

Word by Word

• काकः: a crow
• काकः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: काक
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• बहूनाम्: of many
• बहूनाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बहु
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• अभवत्: was/became
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Imperfect (Laṅ), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• उच्छिष्टकृतभोजनः: one who eats leftovers (scraps)
• उच्छिष्टकृतभोजनः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उच्छिष्टकृतभोजन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• crow (kāka)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse uses the crow living on leftovers as a moral image of degradation and dependence—an ethical reminder that disorder and adharma reduce beings to surviving on what is impure or discarded.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya describes a scene where even a crow is present, characterized by its habit of feeding on the remnants left by many—an observational detail that intensifies the atmosphere of ruin and neglect around the events being narrated.