Ashvamedhika Parva Adhyaya 58 Shloka 57 - Mahabharata | Tamil | Vedapath

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Shloka 57

Kṛṣṇasya Dvārakā-praveśaḥ — Krishna’s Return to Dvārakā and the Raivataka Festival

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमह्याभारत आश्वमेधिकपर्वके अन्तर्गत अनुगीतापर्वमें उत्तंक मुनिका उपाख्यानविषयक सत्तावनवाँ अध्याय पूरा हुआ

Transliteration

tataḥ sa pūjito nāgais tad-uttaṅkaḥ pratāpavān | agnim pradakṣiṇaṃ kṛtvā jagāma guru-sadma tat ||

Translation

பின்னர் நாகர்களால் போற்றப்பட்ட வீரத்துடன் விளங்கிய உத்தங்க முனிவர் அக்னிதேவனை வலம் வந்து, குருவின் ஆசிரமத்தை நோக்கிப் புறப்பட்டார்.

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

सःhe

पूजितःhonoured, worshipped

नागैःby the serpents (Nāgas)

तदाat that time

उत्तङ्कःUttaṅka (the sage)

प्रतापवान्mighty, illustrious

आत्मानम्himself

प्रदक्षिणम्clockwise (in circumambulation)

कृत्वाhaving done, after doing

जगामwent

गुरोःof (his) teacher

आश्रमम्to the hermitage

तत्then/thereupon (emphatic particle)

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Uttaṅka

Nāgas

Agni

Guru (teacher)

Guru’s āśrama (hermitage)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse models dhārmic etiquette: acknowledge help received (from the Nāgas), honor the sacred (Agni) through pradakṣiṇā, and return to one’s guru—affirming gratitude, reverence, and fidelity to the teacher-disciple bond.

What is happening in the narrative?

After being respectfully received by the Nāgas, the sage Uttaṅka circumambulates Agni and then departs for his teacher’s hermitage, marking the conclusion of this segment of the Uttanka-upākhyāna.