Shloka 60

ययाति–देवयानी संवादः

Yayāti–Devayānī Dialogue and Śukra’s Consent

Devanagari script

पुत्रो भूत्वा भावय भावितो मा- मस्मद्देहादुपनिष्क्रम्य तात । समीक्षेथा धर्मवतीमवेक्षां गुरो: सकाशातृ्‌ प्राप्य विद्यां सविद्य:,तात! मेरे इस शरीरसे जीवित निकलकर मेरे लिये पुत्रके तुल्य हो मुझे पुन: जिला देना। मुझ गुरुसे विद्या प्राप्त करके विद्वान्‌ हो जानेपर भी मेरे प्रति धर्मयुक्त दृष्टिसे ही देखना

Transliteration

śukra uvāca |

putro bhūtvā bhāvaya bhāvito mā-

masmaddehād upaniṣkramya tāta |

samīkṣethā dharmavatīm avekṣāṃ

guroḥ sakāśāt prāpya vidyāṃ savidyaḥ ||

Translation

ศุกระกล่าวว่า “ลูกเอ๋ย เมื่อเจ้ารอดชีวิตออกจากกายของเราแล้ว จงเป็นดุจบุตรของเรา และตอบแทนการที่เราเลี้ยงดูเจ้าด้วยการชุบชีวิตเราให้กลับคืน และแม้เจ้าจะได้รับวิชาจากครูจนเป็นผู้รู้แท้แล้ว ก็จงมองเราแต่ด้วยสายตาแห่งธรรมและหน้าที่อันชอบ”

Word by Word

• {'putraḥ': 'son', 'bhūtvā': 'having become

• becoming', 'bhāvaya': 'cause to live/restore

• sustain (also: honor, cherish)', 'bhāvitaḥ': 'nurtured, fostered, benefited

• one who has been supported', 'mām': 'me', 'asmad-dehāt': 'from my body', 'upaniṣkramya': 'having gone out

• having departed (esp. of life-breath)', 'tāta': 'dear child

• son (vocative)', 'samīkṣethāḥ': 'you should look upon

• you should regard', 'dharmavatīm': 'righteous

• in accordance with dharma', 'avekṣām/avekṣāṃ': 'look, gaze

• attitude of viewing', 'guroḥ sakāśāt': 'from the presence of the teacher

• from the teacher', 'prāpya': 'having obtained', 'vidyām': 'knowledge

• learning', 'savidyaḥ': 'learned

Speaker

शुक्र उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śukra
• guru (teacher)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Learning (vidyā) must be governed by dharma: even after becoming learned through one’s teacher, one should maintain a righteous, respectful attitude toward benefactors and elders, repaying nurture with gratitude and duty.

What is happening in the narrative?

Śukra addresses a younger person (tāta), asking that when Śukra’s life leaves his body, the listener should act like a son and restore him, and thereafter—despite gaining learning from a guru—continue to regard Śukra with a dharma-aligned, dutiful gaze.