Shloka 3

Devanagari script

कथमेष समुत्पन्नो राम: सत्यपराक्रम: । कथं ब्रद्मर्षिवंशो<यं क्षत्रधर्मा व्यजायत,ये सत्यपराक्रमी परशुरामजी कैसे उत्पन्न हुए? ब्रह्मर्षियोंका यह वंश क्षत्रियधर्मसे सम्पन्न कैसे हो गया?

Transliteration

Yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | katham eṣa samutpanno Rāmaḥ satya-parākramaḥ | kathaṁ brahmarṣi-vaṁśo ’yaṁ kṣatra-dharmā vyajāyata |

Translation

یُدھِشٹھِر نے کہا—یہ رام، جس کا پرَاکرم سچا اور اٹل ہے، کیسے پیدا ہوا؟ اور برہمرشیوں کا یہ سلسلہ کیسے کر کے کشتریہ دھرم سے آراستہ ہو گیا؟

Word by Word

कथम्how?

एषःthis (man)

समुत्पन्नःarisen, born

रामःRama (Parashurama)

सत्यपराक्रमःof true/unyielding valor

कथम्how?

ब्रह्मर्षि-वंशःlineage of brahmarishis

अयम्this

क्षत्रधर्माhaving kshatriya-duty/nature

अजायतwas born, came to be

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Rāma (Paraśurāma)

brahmarṣi lineage (Bhṛgu/Bhārgava tradition implied)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames an ethical inquiry into how dharma can manifest across social-ritual categories: it asks how a person rooted in a brahmarṣi lineage can embody kṣatriya-dharma, highlighting that conduct and duty may arise from circumstance, purpose, and inherited tradition rather than a simplistic label.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira asks for the origin account of Paraśurāma (Bhārgava Rāma) and seeks an explanation of how a lineage associated with Brahmin sages came to produce a figure characterized by warrior duty and martial prowess.