Ashvamedhika Parva Adhyaya 50 Shloka 31 - Mahabharata | Telugu | Vedapath

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Shloka 31

Mind as Charioteer; Kṣetrajña, Tapas, and Dhyāna-Yoga

Adhyātma-Upadeśa

Devanagari script

एवं कर्म कृतं चित्र विषयस्थं पृथक्‌ पृथक्‌ । यथा कर्म कृतं लोके तथैतानुपपद्यते

Transliteration

evaṁ karma kṛtaṁ citraṁ viṣaya-sthaṁ pṛthak pṛthak | yathā karma kṛtaṁ loke tathaitān upapadyate ||

Translation

ఇలా కర్మలు నానావిధాలుగా ఉండి, తమ తమ విషయక్షేత్రాలలో వేర్వేరు ఫలితాలను ఇస్తాయి. ఈ లోకంలో ఏ కర్మ చేసినారో, దానికి తగిన ఫలమే లభిస్తుంది.

Word by Word

एवम्thus, in this manner

कर्मaction, deed

कृतम्done, performed

चित्रम्variegated, diverse, strange

विषयस्थम्situated in (its) domain/place; place-bound

पृथक्separately

पृथक्each in its own way (repeated for emphasis)

यथाas, just as

कर्मaction, deed

कृतम्done, performed

लोकेin the world

तथाso, in that manner

एतान्these (persons/ones)

उपपद्यतेbefits; is applicable; comes to (them)

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vayu (Vayudeva)

boat (naukā)

chariot (ratha)

land (sthala)

water (jala)

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Actions are domain-specific in their effects: each deed yields a corresponding result, and mismatched means cannot produce the intended end—just as a boat is for water and a chariot for land.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vayudeva delivers a didactic statement explaining karmic correspondence, using everyday analogies (boat/land, chariot/water) to stress that beings reach different outcomes according to the particular actions they have performed.