Shloka 4

अर्जुनस्य लक्ष्यवेधः

Arjuna’s Hitting of the Target at the Svayaṃvara

Devanagari script

षडड्रश्चाखिलो वेद इमं गर्भस्थमेव ह । विवेश भृगुवंशस्य भूय: प्रियचिकीर्षया,भूगुकुलका पुनः प्रिय करनेकी इच्छासे छहों अंगोंसहित सम्पूर्ण वेद इस बालकको गर्भमें ही प्राप्त हो गये थे

Transliteration

ṣaḍaṅgaś cākhilo veda imaṁ garbhastham eva ha | viveśa bhṛguvaṁśasya bhūyaḥ priyacikīrṣayā ||

Translation

భృగువంశానికి మళ్లీ ప్రీతికరమైన మంగళం కలగాలనే సంకల్పంతో, షడంగాలతో కూడిన సమస్త వేదం ఈ బాలుడిలో గర్భస్థితిలోనే ప్రవేశించింది.

Word by Word

षडङ्गःsix-limbed (with six auxiliaries)

चand

अखिलःentire, complete

वेदःthe Veda

इमम्this

गर्भस्थम्being in the womb

एवindeed, just

हindeed (emphatic particle)

विवेशentered, pervaded, came into

भृगुवंशस्यof the lineage of Bhṛgu

भूयःagain, once more

प्रियचिकीर्षयाwith the desire to do what is dear/pleasing

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vasiṣṭha

Veda

Ṣ

Ṣaḍvedāṅga (six Vedāṅgas)

Bhṛgu

Bhṛguvaṁśa (Bhrigu lineage)

the unborn child (garbhastha)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Sacred knowledge (the Veda with its six auxiliaries) is portrayed as a grace that can be innately bestowed, and its proper purpose is the welfare and cherished aims of a righteous lineage—learning is for dharma and beneficence, not vanity.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vasiṣṭha describes a miraculous event: while a particular child is still in the womb, the complete Vedic knowledge along with the Vedāṅgas ‘enters’ him, motivated by a benevolent intention toward the Bhṛgu family line.