Shloka 19

Śakuntalā-Janma-Nāmakaraṇa (Birth and Naming of Śakuntalā) | शकुन्तला-जन्म-नामकरणम्

Devanagari script

धूम्रायास्तु धर: पुत्रो ब्रह्मुविद्यो ध्रुवस्तथा । चन्द्रमास्तु मनस्विन्या: श्वासाया: श्वसनस्तथा,धर और ब्रह्नवेत्ता ध्रुव धूम्राके पुत्र हैं। चन्द्रमा मनस्विनीके और अनिल श्वासाके पुत्र हैं। अह रताके और अनल शाण्डिलीके पुत्र हैं तथा प्रत्यूष और प्रभास ये दोनों प्रभाताके पुत्र बताये गये हैं

Transliteration

dhūmrāyāstu dharaḥ putro brahmavidyo dhruvastathā | candramāstu manasvinyāḥ śvāsāyāḥ śvasanastathā ||

Translation

ไวศัมปายนะกล่าวว่า—จากธูมราได้กำเนิดธร และธรุวะผู้รู้พรหมัน จากมนัสวินีได้กำเนิดจันทรา และจากศวาสาได้กำเนิดศวสนะ (วายุ)

Word by Word

धूम्रायाःof Dhūmrā

तुindeed/and/but

धरःDhara (name)

पुत्रःson

ब्रह्मविद्यःBrahmavidya (name) / knower of Brahman

ध्रुवःDhruva (name)

तथाalso/likewise

चन्द्रमाःthe Moon

तुindeed/and

मनस्विन्याःof Manasvinī

श्वासायाःof Śvāsā

श्वसनःŚvasana (name) / wind-breather

तथाalso/likewise

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Dhūmrā

Dhara

Dhruva

Manasvinī

Candramā (Moon)

Śvāsā

Śvasana (Wind)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse reinforces the Mahābhārata’s view of the cosmos as an ordered, intelligible system: even powerful natural and celestial forces (Moon, Wind) are situated within lawful lineages, suggesting that reality is structured and knowable, and that authority and function are grounded in origin and relation.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana continues a genealogical catalogue in Ādi Parva, listing mothers and their sons—personified beings and cosmic powers—thereby extending the mythic family tree that underpins later narratives and the broader cosmological framework.