Shloka 32

Devanagari script

न शोचितव्यं कौरव्य भवितव्यं हि तत्‌ तथा । श्रुत॑ देवरहस्यं ते कृष्णद्वैघधायनादपि

Transliteration

na śocitavyaṃ kauravya bhavitavyaṃ hi tat tathā | śrutaṃ devarahasyaṃ te kṛṣṇadvaipāyanād api ||

Translation

భీష్ముడు పలికెను—ఓ కౌరవా, నీవు శోకించవలసిన అవసరం లేదు. జరిగినది అట్లానే జరగవలసినదే. నీవు కృష్ణద్వైపాయన వ్యాసుని నుండి దేవతల గూఢరహస్యాన్ని కూడా విన్నావు—ఆ దైవసంకల్పానుసారమే ఈ మహాయుద్ధంలోని సమస్త ఘటనలు జరిగాయి.

Word by Word

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• शोचितव्यम्: is not to be lamented / you should not grieve
• Type: Verb
• Root: शुच्
• Form: gerundive (tavya), neuter, nominative, singular, obligation/necessity (passive sense)

• कौरव्य: O descendant of Kuru
• Type: Noun
• Root: कौरव्य
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• भवितव्यम्: must happen / is bound to be
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: gerundive (tavya), neuter, nominative, singular, inevitability/what must happen

• हि: indeed / for
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि

• तत्: that (event/thing)
• तत्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: neuter, nominative, singular

• तथा: thus / in that manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• श्रुतम्: heard
• Type: Verb
• Root: श्रु
• Form: past passive participle (kta), neuter, nominative, singular

• देव-रहस्यम्: secret of the gods / divine secret
• देव-रहस्यम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: रहस्य
• Form: neuter, nominative, singular

• ते: to you / for you
• ते: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: dative, singular, second

• कृष्ण-द्वैपायनात्: from Krishna-Dvaipayana (Vyasa)
• कृष्ण-द्वैपायनात्: Apadana
• Type: Noun
• Root: कृष्ण-द्वैपायन
• Form: masculine, ablative, singular

• अपि: also / even
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• कुरु-नन्दन: O joy of the Kurus
• Type: Noun
• Root: नन्दन
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhishma
• Kauravya (Kuru prince, addressed listener)
• Krishna Dvaipayana Vyasa
• Devas (gods)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Bhishma teaches restraint in grief by pointing to inevitability: events unfolded according to what had to happen, aligned with a larger divine or cosmic order (deva-rahasya). The ethical emphasis is on accepting outcomes without being consumed by sorrow, especially after catastrophic war.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Anushasana Parva, Bhishma is instructing and consoling a Kuru prince in the aftermath of the war. He reminds him that he has already heard from Vyasa the ‘secret of the gods,’ implying that the war’s events were foreseen/ordained, and therefore grief should be moderated.