Shloka 14

Devanagari script

देवलोकच्युता: सर्वे तथा विरजसो नृप । त्रयोदश सहस्त्राणि वर्षाणां ते जनाधिप

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca |

devalokacyutāḥ sarve tathā virajaso nṛpa |

trayodaśa sahasrāṇi varṣāṇāṁ te janādhipa ||

Translation

Санджая сказал: «О царь, все они низошли, отпав от мира богов; и так же ныне они свободны от страсти и скверны. О владыка людей, срок их жизни — тринадцать тысяч лет».

Word by Word

देवलोकच्युताःfallen from the world of the gods

सर्वेall

तथाthus; likewise

विरजसःfree from dust/impurity; stainless

नृपO king

त्रयोदशthirteen

सहस्राणिthousands

वर्षाणाम्of years

तेthey

जनाधिपO lord of people (king)

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Sañjaya

nṛpa (the king, i.e., Dhṛtarāṣṭra by context)

devaloka (heaven)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even exalted heavenly states are not permanent; beings can fall from devaloka, and the text frames their condition in terms of guṇas—here, becoming virajasaḥ (free from rajas), highlighting moral-psychological purity as a significant marker beyond mere celestial status.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to the king about certain beings (contextually, a group under discussion in the chapter) who have departed from the divine realm and describes their purified state and the measure of their lifespan as thirteen thousand years.