Shloka 52

Samrāt-Lakṣaṇa and the Counsel to Check Jarāsandha (सम्राट्-लक्षणं जरासन्ध-प्रतिबाधा-परामर्शः)

Devanagari script

तस्यां वयममित्रघ्न निवसामो5कुतो भया: । आलोच्य गिरिमुख्यं तं॑ मागधं तीर्णमेव च

Transliteration

tasyāṁ vayam amitraghna nivasāmo 'kuto-bhayāḥ | ālocya giri-mukhyaṁ taṁ māgadhaṁ tīrṇam eva ca ||

Translation

โอ้ผู้ปราบศัตรู ที่นั่นเราจักพำนักโดยไร้ความหวาดหวั่นจากทุกทิศ ครั้นพิจารณาภูผาอันประเสริฐนั้นแล้ว และเมื่อได้ข้ามพ้น (พิชิต) มคธแล้ว เราจักอยู่ ณ ที่นั่น

Word by Word

तस्याम्in that (place/condition)

वयम्we

अमित्रघ्नO slayer of foes

निवसामःwe dwell / we reside

अकुतोभयाःfearless (from any quarter)

आलोच्यhaving considered / having reflected

गिरिमुख्यम्the chief of mountains

तम्that (one)

मागधम्the Magadhan (Jarāsandha)

तीर्णम्crossed / passed over

एवindeed / just

चand

Speaker

श्रीकृष्ण उवाच

Characters & Entities

Śrīkṛṣṇa

Amitraghna (addressee epithet)

Magadha (region/king referred to as Māgadha)

Foremost mountain (giri-mukhya)

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?

Deliberation (ālocya) should precede action, and a well-chosen secure refuge enables fearlessness (akuto-bhayāḥ). The verse highlights prudent counsel and strategic steadiness rather than impulsive reaction.

What is happening in the narrative?

Śrīkṛṣṇa addresses a warrior-ally as “slayer of foes,” proposing that they stay in a particular place without fear, after assessing a key mountain stronghold and the situation regarding the Māgadha (the Magadhan power/king) as having been ‘crossed over’ or neutralized.