Shloka 276

Devanagari script

यत्र क्रीडितमस्माभिस्तदा राजन्‌ समागतै: । “राजकुमार! कौरवनरेश! न तो यह सभा है और न आचार्यका घर ही है जहाँ एकत्र होकर हम सब लोग खेला करते थे”

Transliteration

yatra krīḍitam asmābhis tadā rājan samāgataiḥ |

Translation

यत्र क्रीडितमस्माभिस्तदा राजन् समागतैः । न सा सभा न चाचार्यगृहं यत्रैकत्र समागम्य वयं क्रीडामहे स्म॥

Word by Word

• यत्र: where
• यत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यत्र

• क्रीडितम्: played (was played)
• क्रीडितम्: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: क्रीड्
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), neuter nominative/accusative singular

• अस्माभिः: by us
• अस्माभिः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: Pronoun, instrumental plural

• तदा: then, at that time
• तदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

• राजन्: O king
• राजन्: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: राजन्
• Form: Masculine, vocative singular

• समागतैः: having assembled, gathered
• समागतैः: Karana
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-आ-गम्
• Form: Past passive participle (क्त), masculine instrumental plural

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra (implied by rājan)
• sabha (assembly hall, implied in the contextual gloss)
• ācārya-gṛha (teacher’s house, implied in the contextual gloss)
• rājakumāra (princes, implied in the contextual gloss)
• Kaurava king (implied in the contextual gloss)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse contrasts youthful fellowship with the present gravity of war, implying an ethical warning: when dharma is neglected, even shared upbringing and sacred spaces of learning and play cannot prevent kin from turning into enemies.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya addresses the king, evoking the past—when the princes gathered to play in the assembly hall or at the teacher’s residence—to underscore how far the situation has shifted from camaraderie to the harsh reality of the Kurukṣetra conflict.