Shloka 33

Nṛga-upākhyāna: Brāhmaṇa-sva and the Consequence of Misappropriated Gift-Cattle (कृकलास-रूपे नृगोपाख्यानम्)

Devanagari script

पारक्ये भूमिदेशे तु पितृणां निर्वपेत्‌ तु यः

Transliteration

pārakye bhūmideśe tu pitṝṇāṃ nirvapet tu yaḥ

Translation

Bhīṣma nói: “Ai ở trên đất của người khác, hay nơi xứ lạ, mà vẫn cử hành lễ cúng tế đúng pháp dành cho các Tổ phụ (pitṛs)…”

Word by Word

• पारक्ये: in another's/foreign
• पारक्ये: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पारक्य
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• भूमिदेशे: in a land/region
• भूमिदेशे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूमिदेश
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• तु: but/indeed
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• पितृणाम्: of/for the ancestors
• पितृणाम्: Sampradana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पितृ
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Plural

• निर्वपेत्: should offer/scatter (as an oblation)
• Type: Verb
• Root: निर्वप् (नि + वप्)
• Form: Optative (Vidhi-lin), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• तु: indeed/also
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तु

• यः: who (he who)
• यः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• pitṛs (ancestors)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even when one is in a foreign or another’s territory, one should not neglect one’s duty to the ancestors; prescribed pitṛ-offerings remain a continuing obligation and a marker of dharma.

What is happening in the narrative?

In Bhīṣma’s instruction on dharma, he begins stating a rule concerning the performance of ancestral offerings (pitṛ-kriyā/śrāddha) when a person is away from their own homeland, setting up the consequences or merits that follow.