Shloka 10

Devanagari script

वैशम्पायन उवाच इत्येवंवादिनं तं स न्यायवित्‌ प्रत्यभाषत

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca ity evaṃ-vādinaṃ taṃ sa nyāya-vit pratyabhāṣata

Translation

وَیشَمپایَن نے کہا—یوں کہنے والے اس شخص سے، جو نیکی و انصاف کو جانتا تھا، اُس دانا نے جواباً گفتگو کی۔

Word by Word

• वैशम्पायनः: Vaiśampāyana
• वैशम्पायनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वैशम्पायन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उवाच: said
• उवाच: Kriya
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: Perfect, 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• इति: thus
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• एवम्: in this manner
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• वादिनम्: the speaker; one who was speaking
• वादिनम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वादिन्
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• तम्: him
• तम्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• न्यायवित्: knower of justice/law
• न्यायवित्: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: न्यायविद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• प्रत्यभाषत: replied; spoke in return
• प्रत्यभाषत: Kriya
• Type: Verb
• Root: प्रति-भाष्
• Form: Imperfect, 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the ethical ideal that speech should be met with a response grounded in nyāya—reasoned justice and propriety—implying that counsel and correction are to be guided by dharma rather than impulse.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator indicates a turn in the dialogue: after someone has spoken at length (“thus speaking”), a person characterized as a knower of justice responds, signaling an impending judgment, counsel, or principled reply.