Shloka 39

Devanagari script

विशन्ति सम तदा वीरा: सिंहा इव गिरेगुहाम्‌ | उद्यानमभिपश्यन्तो भ्रातर: सर्व एव ते

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca |

viśanti sma tadā vīrāḥ siṃhā iva gire guhām |

udyānam abhipaśyanto bhrātaraḥ sarva eva te ||

Translation

تب وہ سب بہادر بھائی باغ کو دیکھتے ہوئے ایک ساتھ اندر داخل ہوئے—جیسے شیر پہاڑ کی غار میں داخل ہوتے ہیں۔

Word by Word

• विशन्ति: they enter
• Type: Verb
• Root: विश् (प्रवेशने)
• Form: लट् (वर्तमान), प्रथम, बहुवचन, परस्मैपद

• समम्: together
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सम (अव्यय/विशेषण-प्रातिपदिक)

• तदा: then
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

• वीराः: heroes/warriors
• वीराः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वीर
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• सिंहाः: lions
• Type: Noun
• Root: सिंह
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• इव: like/as
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इव

• गिरेः: of a mountain
• Type: Noun
• Root: गिरि
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, षष्ठी, एकवचन

• गुहाम्: cave
• गुहाम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: गुहा
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• उद्यानम्: the garden/park
• उद्यानम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: उद्यान
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• अभिपश्यन्तः: seeing/looking at
• Type: Verb
• Root: अभि-√पश् (दर्शने)
• Form: शतृ (वर्तमान कृदन्त), पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• भ्रातरः: brothers
• भ्रातरः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: भ्रातृ
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• सर्वे: all
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

• एव: indeed/just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• ते: they/those
• ते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, बहुवचन

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• bhrātaraḥ (the brothers: Kauravas and Pāṇḍavas collectively)
• udyāna (garden/pleasure-grove)
• giri-guhā (mountain cave)
• siṃha (lion)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse uses a simile—lions entering a mountain cave—to highlight royal confidence and collective momentum. Ethically, it hints that impressive outward bearing can accompany actions that later become entangled with adharma; one should judge not by splendor or bravado but by intention and consequence.

What is happening in the narrative?

All the brothers (Kauravas and Pāṇḍavas) proceed into a pleasure-garden, admiring its beauty, entering together with the assuredness of lions entering a cave—setting the stage for events in the grove.