Shloka 15

Udyoga-parva Adhyāya 130: Kuntī’s Instruction on Rājadharma and Daṇḍanīti

Devanagari script

संजयं च महाभागमृषींश्षैव तपोधनान्‌ । प्रादात्‌ तेषां स भगवान्‌ दिव्यं चक्षुर्जनार्दन:

Transliteration

sañjayaṃ ca mahābhāgam ṛṣīṃś caiva tapodhanān | prādāt teṣāṃ sa bhagavān divyaṃ cakṣur janārdanaḥ ||

Translation

Вайшампаяна сказал: Благословенный Господь Джанардана даровал божественное зрение славному Санджае и риши, богатым аскезой. Лишь благодаря этому дару они смогли узреть грозное и сияющее явление Господа, тогда как прочие, подавленные страхом, не могли держать глаза открытыми. Эпизод подчёркивает: истинное видение божественного и дхармы в час испытаний зависит не только от телесного зрения, но от внутренней пригодности и благодати.

Word by Word

• संजयम्: Sanjaya (as object)
• संजयम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: संजय
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

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

• महाभागम्: highly fortunate/noble
• महाभागम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: महाभाग
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• ऋषीन्: sages
• ऋषीन्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: ऋषि
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

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

• एव: indeed/just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• तपोधनान्: those whose wealth is austerity (ascetics)
• तपोधनान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: तपोधन
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Plural

• प्रादात्: gave
• Type: Verb
• Root: दा
• Form: Aorist (Luṅ), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• तेषाम्: to them / of them
• तेषाम्: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• भगवान्: the Blessed Lord
• भगवान्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भगवत्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• दिव्यम्: divine
• दिव्यम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: दिव्य
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• चक्षुः: eye/sight (vision)
• चक्षुः: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: चक्षुस्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• जनार्दनः: Janardana (Krishna)
• जनार्दनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: जनार्दन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Sañjaya
• Ṛṣis (sages)
• Tapodhanas (austere sages)
• Bhagavān Janārdana (Śrī Kṛṣṇa)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Spiritual and ethical discernment in decisive moments is not merely sensory; it requires inner preparedness (tapas, purity, steadiness) and, ultimately, divine grace. Those endowed with such fitness are enabled to perceive what overwhelms ordinary perception.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana narrates that Kṛṣṇa (Janārdana) bestows divine sight upon Sañjaya and austere sages so they can behold His extraordinary, terrifyingly radiant manifestation—while others are unable to look upon it.