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Shloka 27

अव्यक्त-मानस-सृष्टिवादः

Doctrine of Creation from the Unmanifest ‘Mānasa’

पुत्रनाशे वित्तनाशे ज्ञातिसम्बन्धिनामपि । प्राप्पते सुमहद्‌ दुखं दावाग्निप्रतिमं विभो । दैवायत्तमिदं सर्व सुखदुःखे भवाभवौ

putranāśe vittanāśe jñātisambandhinām api | prāpnoti sumahad duḥkhaṃ dāvāgnipratimaṃ vibho | daivāyattam idaṃ sarvaṃ sukhaduḥkhe bhavābhavau ||

برہمن نے کہا—بیٹے کے ضائع ہونے پر، مال کے ضائع ہونے پر، اور رشتہ داروں سے تعلق ٹوٹ جانے پر بھی، اے صاحبِ شوکت، جنگل کی آگ کی مانند بھڑک اٹھنے والا بڑا غم پیدا ہوتا ہے۔ مگر یہ سب کچھ تقدیر کے تابع ہے—سکھ اور دکھ، اور دنیاوی وجود میں عروج و زوال بھی۔

पुत्रनाशेin the destruction of a son
पुत्रनाशे:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootपुत्र-नाश
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
वित्तनाशेin the loss of wealth
वित्तनाशे:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootवित्त-नाश
FormMasculine, Locative, Singular
ज्ञातिसम्बन्धिनाम्of relatives/kinsmen
ज्ञातिसम्बन्धिनाम्:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootज्ञाति-सम्बन्धिन्
FormMasculine, Genitive, Plural
अपिalso/even
अपि:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअपि
प्राप्यतेis obtained/comes about
प्राप्यते:
TypeVerb
Root√आप् (आप्नुयात्/आप्नोति) उपसर्ग: प्र-
FormPresent, Third, Singular, Passive
सुमहत्very great
सुमहत्:
TypeAdjective
Rootसु-महत्
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
दुःखम्sorrow, suffering
दुःखम्:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootदुःख
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
दावाग्निप्रतिमम्like a forest-fire
दावाग्निप्रतिमम्:
TypeAdjective
Rootदावाग्नि-प्रतिम
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
विभोO mighty one
विभो:
TypeNoun
Rootविभु
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular
दैवायत्तम्dependent on fate
दैवायत्तम्:
TypeAdjective
Rootदैव-आयत्त
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
इदम्this
इदम्:
TypePronoun
Rootइदम्
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
सर्वम्all (this)
सर्वम्:
TypeAdjective
Rootसर्व
FormNeuter, Nominative, Singular
सुखदुःखेpleasure and pain
सुखदुःखे:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootसुख-दुःख
FormNeuter, Nominative, Dual
भवाभवौexistence and non-existence (coming-to-be and ceasing)
भवाभवौ:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootभव-अभव
FormMasculine, Nominative, Dual

ब्राह्मण उवाच

ब्राह्मण (speaker)
विभो (addressed person, unspecified)

Educational Q&A

The verse highlights the intensity of grief caused by loss (child, wealth, kinship) and frames such experiences as governed by daiva (destiny), urging a reflective, less ego-centered response to happiness and suffering and to one’s worldly rise and decline.

In the didactic setting of Śānti Parva, a Brāhmaṇa speaker addresses a powerful listener (“vibho”), describing how devastating losses ignite grief like a forest fire, then broadens the point into a moral-philosophical reflection that life’s gains and reversals are fate-dependent.