Shloka 35
उपदेशदोषप्रसङ्गः (Upadeśa-doṣa-prasaṅgaḥ) — The Risk of Misapplied Counsel
Devanagari script
तथैव स ऋषिस्तात कालधर्ममवाप ह
Transliteration
tathaiva sa ṛṣis tāta kāladharmam avāpa ha
Translation
“Cũng vậy, hỡi con, vị hiền triết ấy đến kỳ cũng thuận theo luật của Thời gian—ông qua đời khi thời mệnh đã đến.”
Word by Word
तथाthus, in the same way
तथा:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतथा
एवindeed, just
एव:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव
सःhe
सः:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootतद्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
ऋषिःsage
ऋषिः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootऋषि
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
तातO dear (son), O beloved
तात:
TypeNoun
Rootतात
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular
कालधर्मम्the law/condition of time (i.e., death, mortality)
कालधर्मम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootकालधर्म
FormMasculine, Accusative, Singular
अवापattained, met with
अवाप:
TypeVerb
Rootआप्
FormPerfect (Paroksha), Third, Singular, Parasmaipada
हindeed (emphatic particle)
ह:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootह
Speaker
भीष्म उवाच
Characters & Entities
A
an unnamed ṛṣi (sage)K
kāla (Time, as a cosmic principle)Character Dynamics
Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)
War Context
Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)
Philosophical Teaching
Political Layer
Meter (Chandas)
Sandhi Notes
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores the inevitability of death under the governance of Kāla (Time): even a sage must submit to the ordained course of mortality, reminding the listener to align life with dharma before time runs out.
Bhīṣma continues a didactic account and concludes a point by stating that the sage, in the same way as previously described, eventually reached kāladharma—i.e., he died when his destined time came.