Shloka 14

Rajo-guṇa-nirdeśa — Brahmā’s Enumeration of Rajasic Dispositions

Devanagari script

नृत्यवादित्रगीतानां प्रसज्रा ये च केचन । सर्व एते गुणा विप्रा राजसा: सम्प्रकीर्तिता:

Transliteration

vāyudeva uvāca | nṛtyavāditragītānāṃ prasaktā ye ca kecana | sarva ete guṇā viprā rājasāḥ samprakīrtitāḥ ||

Translation

Vāyudeva nói: “Hỡi các Bà-la-môn, những kẻ say mê múa, nhạc khí và ca hát—cùng mọi điều khác cùng loại—đều được tuyên xưng là những phẩm tính của rajas.”

Word by Word

• नृत्य: of dances
• नृत्य: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृत्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• वादित्र: of musical instruments
• वादित्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: वादित्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• गीतानाम्: of songs
• गीतानाम्: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: गीत (प्रातिपदिक; कृदन्त from √गै/गाय्)
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• प्रसज्राः: addicted/attached
• प्रसज्राः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रसज्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• ये: who
• ये: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: यद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

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

• केचन: some (certain persons)
• केचन: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: क (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक) + चित् (निपात)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• सर्वे: all
• सर्वे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• एते: these
• एते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद् (सर्वनाम-प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• गुणाः: qualities
• गुणाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: गुण (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• विप्राः: O Brahmins
• Type: Noun
• Root: विप्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Plural

• राजसाः: rajasic
• राजसाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: राजस (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• सम्प्रकीर्तिताः: are declared/proclaimed
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सम्-प्र-√कीर्त् (क्त कृदन्त; प्रातिपदिक: सम्प्रकीर्तित)
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyudeva
• viprāḥ (brāhmaṇas)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Attachment to entertainment and sensory excitement—such as dance, music, and song—is classified as rājasa, i.e., a passion-driven tendency that disturbs inner steadiness and encourages outward craving.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva addresses the brāhmaṇas and continues a didactic classification of human dispositions by the guṇas, here identifying indulgence in performative pleasures as rājasa.