Shloka 31

Devanagari script

स धर्मस्यानृणो भूत्वा पुनर्मात्रा समेत्य च । तस्यै गर्भ समावेद्य तत्रैवान्तरधीयत,इस तरह व्यासजी (मातृ-आज्ञापालनरूप) धर्मसे उऋ्कण होकर फिर अपनी माता सत्यवतीसे मिले और उन्हें गर्भका समाचार बताकर वहीं अन्तर्धान हो गये

Transliteration

sa dharmasyānṛṇo bhūtvā punar mātrā sametya ca | tasyai garbhaṃ samāvedya tatraivāntaradhīyata ||

Translation

Wika ni Vaiśampāyana: Matapos tuparin ang kanyang pananagutan sa dharma sa pamamagitan ng pagsunod sa utos ng ina, muling nakipagkita si Vyāsa sa kanyang ina. Ipinabatid niyang naganap na ang paglilihi, at doon din siya naglaho.

Word by Word

सःhe

धर्मस्यof duty/dharma

अनृणःfree from debt/obligation

भूत्वाhaving become

पुनःagain

मात्राwith (his) mother

समेत्यhaving met/approached

चand

तस्यैto her

गर्भम्pregnancy/conception

समावेद्यhaving informed/announced

तत्रthere

एवindeed/just

अन्तर्धीयत्disappeared/vanished

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Vyāsa

Satyavatī

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

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 dharma as the faithful completion of an assigned obligation—here, obedience to a mother’s command—followed by non-attachment. One should fulfill duty (becoming ānṛṇa, ‘free of debt’) and then withdraw without clinging to outcomes or recognition.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vyāsa, having carried out Satyavatī’s instruction to ensure continuation of the Kuru line, meets her again, reports that conception has taken place, and then disappears from that spot, indicating his ascetic, otherworldly mode of life.