Shloka 8

Devanagari script

चिन्तयाना विमोक्षं वो नाधिगच्छामि किंचन । छादयिष्यामि वो गात्रै: करिष्ये मरणं सह,मैं तुमलोगोंके छुटकारेका उपाय सोचती हूँ; किंतु कुछ भी समझमें नहीं आता। अच्छा; अपने अंगोंसे तुमलोगोंको ढक लूँगी और तुम्हारे साथ ही मैं भी मर जाऊँगी

Transliteration

cintayantā vimokṣaṃ vo nādhigacchāmi kiṃcana | chādayiṣyāmi vo gātraiḥ kariṣye maraṇaṃ saha ||

Translation

“I keep thinking of some way to free you, yet I can find nothing at all. Very well—then I shall cover you with my own limbs and meet death together with you.”

Word by Word

• चिन्तयाना: thinking (I, a woman)
• चिन्तयाना: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: चिन्तयत् (चिन्त् धातु)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular, शतृ-प्रत्यय (वर्तमान कृदन्त), स्त्री. प्रथमा एकवचन

• विमोक्षम्: release, deliverance
• विमोक्षम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: विमोक्ष
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• वः: of you / for you (pl.)
• वः: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Genitive, Plural, Second, enclitic form

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

• अधिगच्छामि: I find / I attain
• Type: Verb
• Root: अधि-गम् (गम् धातु)
• Form: Present, Indicative, First, Singular, Parasmaipada

• किञ्चन: anything (at all)
• किञ्चन: Karma
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: किञ्चन
• Form: used with negation: 'anything at all'

• छादयिष्यामि: I will cover
• Type: Verb
• Root: छाद् (छादयति)
• Form: Future, First, Singular, Parasmaipada

• वः: you (pl.)
• वः: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Accusative, Plural, Second, enclitic form

• गात्रैः: with (my) limbs/body
• गात्रैः: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: गात्र
• Form: Neuter, Instrumental, Plural

• करिष्ये: I will do / I will undertake
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ (कृ धातु)
• Form: Future, First, Singular, Atmanepada

• मरणम्: death
• मरणम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मरण
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• सह: together with
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सह
• Form: takes instrumental; here sense: 'together with'

Speaker

वैशमग्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśaṃpāyana (narrator/speaker)
• unnamed 'you' (plural addressees)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

When no practical means of rescue appears, the speaker’s ethical impulse turns toward protective self-offering: compassion expresses itself as willingness to share the fate of the vulnerable rather than abandon them.

What is happening in the narrative?

A female speaker, unable to discover any method of deliverance for the addressed group, resolves to shield them with her own body and to die along with them—an extreme gesture of protection and solidarity.