Shloka 10

जयद्रथ-निग्रहः — Jayadratha Restrained, Shamed, and Released

Devanagari script

बद्धन्नपानसंयुक्त: सुसमृद्धगुणान्वित: । प्रवर्ततां महायज्ञस्तवापि भरतर्षभ,“भरतश्रेष्ठ! तुम्हारा महायज्ञ भी प्रचुर अन्नपानकी सामग्रीसे युक्त और अत्यन्त समृद्धिशाली गुणोंसे सम्पन्न हो”

Transliteration

baddhannapānasaṁyuktaḥ susamṛddhaguṇānvitaḥ | pravartatāṁ mahāyajñas tavāpi bharatarṣabha ||

Translation

ఓ భరతర్షభా! నీ మహాయజ్ఞమూ సమృద్ధమైన అన్నపానాలతో యుక్తమై, శ్రేష్ఠ గుణసంపదతో పరిపూర్ణమై, సవ్యంగా ప్రవృత్తించుగాక.

Word by Word

• बद्ध: provided/secured (well-supplied)
• बद्ध: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: बन्ध् (क्त)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• अन्नपानसंयुक्तः: endowed with food and drink
• अन्नपानसंयुक्तः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अन्नपानसंयुक्त
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सुसमृद्धगुणान्वितः: possessing excellently abundant qualities
• सुसमृद्धगुणान्वितः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सुसमृद्धगुणान्वित
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रवर्तताम्: may it proceed / let it be undertaken
• प्रवर्तताम्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्रवृत् (प्र + वृत्)
• Form: Imperative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Singular

• महायज्ञः: the great sacrifice
• महायज्ञः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: महायज्ञ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• तव: of you / your
• तव: Adhikarana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: —, Genitive, Singular

• अपि: also
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अपि

• भरतर्षभ: O bull among the Bharatas
• भरतर्षभ: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भरतर्षभ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Bharatarṣabha (honorific addressee, a foremost Bharata/Kuru)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A great sacrifice should be supported by both material sufficiency (food and drink for participants and guests) and inner excellence (guṇas such as discipline, purity, generosity, and right intention). Prosperity is presented as ethically meaningful when it sustains dharmic public action.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana offers a formal benediction to a Bharata prince, wishing that his mahāyajña may commence and continue successfully, fully provisioned and marked by flourishing virtues—an auspicious endorsement of the rite’s proper conduct and outcome.