Ashvamedhika Parva Adhyaya 52 Shloka 42 - Mahabharata | Vietnamese | Vedapath

Vyasa

Shloka 42

Kṛṣṇa’s Departure, Auspicious Omens, and the Opening of the Uttaṅka Dialogue (कृष्णप्रयाण-निमित्त-उत्तङ्कसंवाद-प्रारम्भः)

Devanagari script

अयं चिरोषितो राजन्‌ वासुदेव: प्रतापवान्‌ | भवन्तं समनुज्ञाप्य पितरं द्रष्टमिच्छति

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca | ayaṁ ciroṣito rājan vāsudevaḥ pratāpavān | bhavantaṁ samanujñāpya pitaraṁ draṣṭum icchati |

Translation

Vaiśampāyana nói: “Tâu Đại vương, đấng Vāsudeva hùng mạnh đã lưu lại đây đã lâu. Nay sau khi xin phép bệ hạ, Người muốn đi thăm phụ thân. Xin bệ hạ hoan hỷ ban phép, để Người được trở về thành của mình.”

Word by Word

अयम्this (person)

चिरोषितःhaving stayed long

राजन्O king

वासुदेवःVāsudeva (Kṛṣṇa)

प्रतापवान्mighty, valorous

भवन्तम्you

समनुज्ञाप्यhaving asked/obtained permission (from)

पितरम्father

द्रष्टुम्to see

इच्छतिwishes, desires

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Vāsudeva (Kṛṣṇa)

the King (addressed as rājan)

Vasudeva (father, implied by the epithet Vāsudeva)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even the most powerful act within dharma by observing propriety: seeking a ruler’s leave before departing and honoring filial duty by desiring to see one’s father.

What is happening in the narrative?

The narrator reports that Kṛṣṇa (Vāsudeva), after staying for a long time, requests the king’s permission to depart so he can visit his father, signaling a transition toward his return journey.