Shloka 31

पाण्डोः प्रेतकार्य-सम्पादनम्

Pāṇḍu’s Funeral Rites and Public Mourning

Devanagari script

प्रियया सह संवासं प्राप्प कामविमोहित: । त्वमप्यस्यामवस्थायां प्रेतलोक॑ गमिष्यसि,तुम भी जब कामसे सर्वथा मोहित होकर अपनी प्यारी पत्नीके साथ समागम करने लगोगे, तब इस--मेरी अवस्थामें ही यमलोक सिधारोगे

Transliteration

priyayā saha saṃvāsaṃ prāpya kāmavimohitaḥ | tvam apy asyām avasthāyāṃ pretalokaṃ gamiṣyasi ||

Translation

เมื่อเจ้าถูกกามราคะครอบงำจนหลงมัวเมา และได้เสพสังวาสอยู่ร่วมกับภรรยาผู้เป็นที่รัก เมื่อนั้นเจ้าเองก็จักไปสู่โลกแห่งผู้ตาย (ยมโลก) ในสภาพเช่นเดียวกับนี้

Word by Word

प्रिययाwith (his) beloved (wife)

सहtogether with

संवासम्cohabitation, union

प्राप्पhas obtained/attained

कामविमोहितःdeluded by desire

त्वम्you

अपिalso, even

अस्याम्in this

अवस्थायाम्in (this) condition/state

प्रेतलोकम्the world of the departed

गमिष्यसिyou will go

Speaker

मृग उवाच

Characters & Entities

mṛga (the deer, speaker)

priyā (beloved wife)

preta-loka (world of the dead)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Desire that overwhelms discernment leads to negligence and can cause sudden downfall; therefore restraint and awareness are essential even in legitimate household life.

What is happening in the narrative?

A deer, speaking from its own fatal experience, warns another (implicitly a human listener) that becoming completely infatuated with sexual union and domestic pleasure can result in death and passage to the realm of the departed, just as it happened to the deer.