Shloka 2

पाण्डोः प्रेतकार्य-सम्पादनम्

Pāṇḍu’s Funeral Rites and Public Mourning

Devanagari script

नामथेयानि चाप्येषां कथ्यमानानि भागश: । त्वत्त: श्रुतानि मे ब्रह्म॒न्‌ पाण्डवानां च कीर्तय,ब्रह्मन! इन धृतराष्ट्रपुत्रोंक पृथक्‌ू-पृथक्‌ नाम भी जो आपने कहे हैं, वे मैंने अच्छी तरह सुन लिये। अब पाण्डवोंके जन्मका वर्णन कीजिये

Transliteration

Janamejaya uvāca: nāmatheyāni cāpy eṣāṃ kathyamānāni bhāgaśaḥ | tvattaḥ śrutāni me brahman pāṇḍavānāṃ ca kīrtaya ||

Translation

พระเจ้าชนเมชัยตรัสว่า “ข้าแต่พราหมณ์ นามของโอรสธฤตราษฏระที่ท่านกล่าวเป็นตอน ๆ นั้น ข้าพเจ้าได้ฟังจากท่านโดยชัดแจ้งแล้ว บัดนี้ขอท่านจงกล่าวเรื่องกำเนิดของเหล่าปาณฑพด้วยเถิด”

Word by Word

• नामधेयानि: names
• नामधेयानि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: नामधेय
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

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

• एषाम्: of these (persons)
• एषाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• कथ्यमानानि: being told/being narrated
• Type: Verb
• Root: कथ्यमान
• Form: शानच् (present passive participle), Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• भागशः: separately; in parts
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: भागशस्

• त्वत्तः: from you
• त्वत्तः: Apadana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: त्वद्
• Form: Masculine, Ablative, Singular

• श्रुतानि: heard
• Type: Verb
• Root: श्रुत
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• मे: by me / to me (for me)
• मे: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: Masculine, Dative/Genitive, Singular

• ब्रह्मन्: O Brahmin (sage)
• Type: Noun
• Root: ब्रह्मन्
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• पाण्डवानाम्: of the Pandavas
• पाण्डवानाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाण्डव
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• कीर्तय: tell; recount; proclaim
• Type: Verb
• Root: कीर्तय् (कीर्त्/कीर्तयति)
• Form: लोट् (imperative), Second, Singular, परस्मैपद

Speaker

जनमेजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Janamejaya
• Brahman (the sage addressed, i.e., Vaiśaṃpāyana in context)
• Dhṛtarāṣṭra-putrāḥ (sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, i.e., the Kauravas)
• Pāṇḍavāḥ (the Pāṇḍavas)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the disciplined transmission of itihāsa: a listener first receives a structured account (names recited one by one) and then requests the complementary lineage. It models attentive listening, orderly narration, and the ethical seriousness with which history and genealogy are preserved.

What is happening in the narrative?

King Janamejaya, having heard the separate names of Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s sons, asks the sage to proceed to the Pāṇḍavas—specifically to recount their account (their lineage/birth narrative) as the next part of the story.