Shloka 203

Devanagari script

पश्यन्तु तपसो वीर्यमद्य मे चिरसम्भूतम्‌ । 'ये देवता, गन्धर्व और महर्षि सब लोग आज मेरी चिरसंचित तपस्याका प्रभाव देखें

Transliteration

paśyantu tapaso vīryam adya me cirasambhūtam |

Translation

ขอให้เขาทั้งหลายได้ประจักษ์ในวันนี้ถึงเดชแห่งตบะที่เราสั่งสมมายาวนาน ขอให้เหล่าเทวะ เหล่าคันธรรพ์ และมหาฤๅษีทั้งปวง ได้เห็นอานุภาพแห่งตบะของเราในกาลวันนี้

Word by Word

पश्यन्तुlet (them) see

तपसःof austerity / of penance

वीर्यम्power, potency

अद्यtoday

मेmy / of me

चिरसम्भूतम्arisen/produced over a long time; long-acquired

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Devatāḥ (gods)

Gandharvāḥ (Gandharvas)

Maharṣayaḥ (great seers)

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?

The verse highlights the Mahābhārata’s ethical-spiritual idea that sustained tapas (disciplined austerity) generates real efficacy (vīrya/prabhāva). Such power is not for display alone; it functions as a form of moral-spiritual authority that even divine and sage communities acknowledge.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator Vaiśampāyana reports a declaration that the accumulated power of long penance is about to be demonstrated, with gods, Gandharvas, and great seers as witnesses—signaling an imminent manifestation of ascetic potency within the Āśramavāsika context.