Shloka 44

Devanagari script

य एवं कुरुते कर्म शुभाशुभफलात्मकम्‌

Transliteration

ya evaṁ kurute karma śubhāśubhaphalātmakam

Translation

วสิษฐะกล่าวว่า “ผู้ใดกระทำกรรมซึ่งมีสภาพให้ผลทั้งเป็นมงคลและอัปมงคล…”

Word by Word

यःwho

एवम्thus, in this manner

कुरुतेdoes, performs

कर्मaction, deed

शुभाशुभफलात्मकम्having as its nature the fruit of good and bad (i.e., yielding auspicious and inauspicious results)

Speaker

वसिष्ठ उवाच

Characters & Entities

व

वसिष्ठ (Vasiṣṭha)

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 frames karma as ethically consequential: actions are characterized by the fruits they generate—auspicious or inauspicious (or mixed). It sets up the principle that one should understand deeds through their moral outcomes and the responsibility that follows from producing such results.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Śānti Parva’s instructional setting, Vasiṣṭha speaks as a teacher, introducing a statement about a person who performs actions that yield both good and bad fruits. The line functions as the opening of a longer explanation about how such karma binds, ripens, or should be evaluated within dharma-discourse.