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Shloka 336

Bhīṣma on the Śara-Śayyā: Yudhiṣṭhira and Kṛṣṇa Approach the Eldest for Śānti

सेव्यमान: सवैयाख्यो गाड़ेय विदितस्तव । “गड़ानन्दन! योग और सांख्यमें जो सनातन धर्म नियत हैं तथा चारों वर्णोंके लिये जो अविरोधी धर्म बताया गया है, जिसका सभी लोग सेवन करते हैं, वह सब आपको व्याख्यासहित ज्ञात है

sevyamānaḥ savaiyākhyo gāḍeya viditastava | gaḍānandana! yoga-sāṅkhyayoḥ yo sanātano dharmo niyataḥ tathā caturṇāṃ varṇānāṃ ye ’virodhino dharmāḥ proktāḥ, yaṃ sarve janāḥ sevante, tat sarvaṃ te vyākhyāsahitaṃ viditam |

ไวศัมปายนะกล่าวว่า “โอ บุตรแห่งคฑา ท่านเลื่องชื่อว่าเป็นผู้แถลงอรรถได้งดงาม ธรรมอันเป็นนิตย์ที่กำหนดไว้ในโยคะและสางขยะ และหน้าที่อันไม่ขัดแย้งกันซึ่งบัญญัติแก่ทั้งสี่วรรณะ—อันชนทั้งหลายปฏิบัติกันโดยทั่วไป—ท่านล้วนรู้พร้อมด้วยคำอธิบาย”

सेव्यमानःbeing practiced/served
सेव्यमानः:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootसेव्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular, Present passive participle (शानच्), कर्मणि
he/that (one)
:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
वैयाख्यःthe explainer/commentator
वैयाख्यः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootवैयाख्य
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
गाडेयO Gāḍeya (descendant of Gāḍi)
गाडेय:
Sampradana
TypeNoun
Rootगाडेय
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular
विदितःknown
विदितः:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootविद्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular, Past passive participle (क्त)
तवto you/your
तव:
Adhikarana
TypePronoun
Rootयुष्मद्
FormGenitive, Singular

वैशम्पायन उवाच

V
Vaiśampāyana
G
Gaḍa (as an ancestral/epithet reference)
Y
Yoga
S
Sāṅkhya
T
the four varṇas

Educational Q&A

The verse highlights that true understanding of dharma includes both philosophical foundations (Yoga and Sāṅkhya) and practical, socially harmonizing duties for the four varṇas—dharma that is ‘avirodhī’, i.e., not self-contradictory and not disruptive to the wider moral order.

Vaiśampāyana addresses a figure called ‘Gaḍānandana/Gāḍeya’, praising him as a skilled expositor and acknowledging that he already knows—along with proper explanations—the established dharmas taught in Yoga and Sāṅkhya and the commonly practiced, non-conflicting duties for all four social orders.