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Mahabharata 9.50.233Shalya Parva, Adhyaya 50, Shloka 233

Sārasvata–Dadhīca Upākhyāna at Sarasvatī Tīrtha

Balarāma’s Pilgrimage Context

मया दृष्ट: समुद्रे च आश्रमे च कथं त्वयम्‌ । राजेन्द्र! जैगीषव्यकी तपस्याका वह योगजनित प्रभाव देखकर ये मुनिश्रेष्ठ देवल फिर सोचने लगे--“मैंने इन्हें अभी-अभी समुद्रतटपर देखा है

mayā dṛṣṭaḥ samudre ca āśrame ca kathaṃ tvayam | rājendra jaigīṣavyakī tapasā kā va yogajanitaḥ prabhāvaḥ ||

وَیشَمپایَن نے کہا—“اے راجندر! میں نے تمہیں سمندر کے کنارے بھی دیکھا ہے اور آشرم میں بھی—یہ کیسے ممکن ہے؟ جَیگیشویہ کی تپسیا اور یوگ سے پیدا ہونے والا یہ کیسا غیر معمولی اثر ہے؟” اس یوگی کرشمے کو دیکھ کر مُنیوں میں برتر دیول حیرت میں سوچنے لگے—“ابھی ابھی تو میں نے اسے ساحلِ سمندر پر دیکھا تھا، پھر آشرم میں کیسے موجود ہے؟”

मयाby me
मया:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootअस्मद्
Form—, Instrumental, Singular
दृष्टःseen
दृष्टः:
Karma
TypeVerb
Rootदृश्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
समुद्रेin/at the sea
समुद्रे:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootसमुद्र
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
and
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
आश्रमेin/at the hermitage
आश्रमे:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootआश्रम
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
and
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
कथम्how
कथम्:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootकथम्
त्वयम्you
त्वयम्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootयुष्मद्
Form—, Nominative, Singular
राजेन्द्रO king of kings
राजेन्द्र:
TypeNoun
Rootराजेन्द्र
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular

वैशम्पायन उवाच

V
Vaiśampāyana
D
Devala
J
Jaigīṣavya
S
samudra (ocean)
Ā
āśrama (hermitage)

Educational Q&A

The passage highlights the extraordinary efficacy (prabhāva) of tapas and yoga: disciplined ascetic practice can yield siddhis that transcend ordinary limitations of place, prompting humility and reverent inquiry even among great sages.

A sage (Devala) is astonished because he has just seen Jaigīṣavya at the seashore, yet the same person appears in the hermitage. Vaiśampāyana reports this wonder and frames it as a yogic effect produced by austerity and yoga.

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