Shloka 8
Duḥṣantasya Vana-praveśaḥ
King Duḥṣanta’s Entry into the Forest Hunt
पशव्यश्रैव पुण्यश्च प्रभूतधनधान्यवान् । स्वारक्ष्यश्चैव सौम्यश्न भोग्यैर्भूमिगुणैर्युत:
vaishampāyana uvāca | paśavyāś caiva puṇyaś ca prabhūtadhana-dhānyavān | svārakṣyaś caiva saumyaś ca bhogyair bhūmi-guṇair yutaḥ ||
Sinabi ni Vaiśampāyana: Siya’y sagana sa mga alagang hayop at marangal ang asal; may masaganang yaman at butil. Kaya niyang ipagtanggol ang sariling kaharian, mahinahon ang likas, at pinagkalooban ng mga ligaya at likás na kagalingan ng lupain—mga yaman na nararapat gamitin nang wasto at ingatan.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Prosperity is presented as ethically grounded: true excellence includes virtue (puṇya), the capacity to protect one’s realm (svārakṣya), gentleness (saumya), and the responsible enjoyment and stewardship of the land’s resources (bhūmi-guṇa).
Vaiśampāyana describes a figure’s qualities—material abundance (cattle, wealth, grain) together with moral and administrative fitness (virtue, self-protection, gentleness), portraying an idealized condition of a well-endowed and well-governed domain.