Shloka 22

Adhyāya 125: Raṅga-pradarśana — Arjuna’s Entry and Astric Demonstration (रङ्गप्रदर्शनम्)

Devanagari script

माद्रयुवाच विलपन्त्या मया देवि वार्यमाणेन चासकृत्‌ । आत्मा न वारितो<नेन सत्यं दिष्टं चिकीर्षणा

Transliteration

mādry uvāca vilapantyā mayā devi vāryamāṇena cāsakṛt | ātmā na vārito 'nena satyaṃ diṣṭaṃ cikīrṣaṇā ||

Translation

Mādrī thưa: “Muôn tâu hoàng hậu, thiếp vừa khóc vừa than, hết lần này đến lần khác cố ngăn đức vua. Nhưng người không thể tự kìm mình; vì mê muội, người dường như quyết làm cho tai ương do lời nguyền và số mệnh ấy thành sự thật.”

Word by Word

• माद्री: Madri
• माद्री: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: माद्री
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular

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

• विलपन्त्या: by me lamenting/while I was lamenting
• विलपन्त्या: Karana
• Type: Verb
• Root: विलप्
• Form: Feminine, Instrumental, Singular, Present active participle (शतृ)

• मया: by me
• मया: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद्
• Form: —, Instrumental, Singular

• देवि: O lady/queen
• Type: Noun
• Root: देवी
• Form: Feminine, Vocative, Singular

• वार्यमाणेन: by (him) being restrained / though being restrained
• वार्यमाणेन: Karana
• Type: Verb
• Root: वारय्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular, Present passive participle (शानच्/मान)

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• असकृत्: again and again
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: असकृत्

• आत्मा: he himself / his own self
• आत्मा: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: आत्मन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• वारितः: was restrained/held back
• Type: Verb
• Root: वारय्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular, Past passive participle (क्त)

• अनेन: by this (means/person)
• अनेन: Karana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Instrumental, Singular

• सत्यम्: true / truth (as object: to make true)
• सत्यम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सत्य
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• दिष्टम्: fate, destiny (ordained lot)
• दिष्टम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: दिष्ट
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• चिकीर्षणा: the desire/intention to do (so)
• चिकीर्षणा: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular, Desiderative action-noun (इच्छार्थक), from चिकीर्ष्

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mādrī
• Devi (the addressed queen/lady)
• the king (implied; contextually Pāṇḍu)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the ethical importance of self-restraint: even when warned and restrained by loved ones, a person overcome by moha (delusion) may choose to enact what seems ‘fated,’ turning a curse or misfortune into lived reality. It cautions that destiny does not remove personal responsibility for self-control.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mādrī recounts to the addressed queen that she repeatedly tried, in tears, to stop the king from a course of action. Despite her efforts, he could not check himself and appeared determined to fulfill a doom linked with a curse, as though making the foretold misfortune come true.