Shloka 125

कृतयुगवर्णनम् तथा राजधर्मोपदेशः

Kṛtayuga Description and Instruction on Royal Dharma

Devanagari script

ततस्तमेव शरणं गतो<5स्मि विधिवत्‌ तदा । वरेण्यं वरदं देव॑ं मनसा कर्मणैव च

Transliteration

tatastam eva śaraṇaṃ gato 'smi vidhivat tadā | vareṇyaṃ varadaṃ devaṃ manasā karmaṇaiva ca ||

Translation

تب میں نے اسی برگزیدہ اور مرادیں دینے والے دیوتا کی باقاعدہ طریقے سے پناہ لی—دل سے بھی اور عمل سے بھی۔ اے یُدھِشٹھِر! میں مسلسل دوڑتا پھرتا اور اضطراب میں مبتلا رہتا تھا؛ اور جب کئی برسوں کی آوارہ گردی کے باوجود بھی اُس مہاتما کے جسم کا کوئی انت نہ ملا، تو میں نے دل، زبان اور عمل کے ذریعے اسی مرادیں بخشنے والے، نہایت قابلِ تعظیم دیوتا کی شरण اختیار کی۔

Word by Word

• {'tatas': 'then, thereafter', 'tam eva': 'that very (one), precisely him', 'śaraṇam': 'refuge, protection', 'gataḥ asmi': 'I have gone (to), I have resorted to', 'vidhivat': 'according to rule

• duly, in proper manner', 'tadā': 'at that time', 'vareṇyam': 'worthy to be chosen

• most excellent, venerable', 'varadam': 'giver of boons', 'devam': 'god, deity', 'manasā': 'with the mind

• mentally', 'karmaṇā': 'by action

• through deeds', 'eva': 'indeed, precisely', 'ca': 'and', 'yudhiṣṭhira': 'Yudhiṣṭhira (addressed vocatively)'}

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Yudhiṣṭhira
• deva (unnamed deity)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

When human effort and prolonged searching reach their limit, one should turn—duly and wholeheartedly—to a worthy refuge. The verse emphasizes disciplined surrender (vidhivat) and inner-outer alignment: seeking with mind and with action.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana reports that after long, anxious wandering and failing to find the end or outcome connected with a great being’s body, he formally takes refuge in a boon-giving, venerable deity, addressing Yudhiṣṭhira as the listener.