Shloka 30

Ulūpī’s Disclosure and the Saṃjīvana-Maṇi: Arjuna’s Restoration (उलूपी-प्रकटनं संजीवनमणि-स्थापनं च)

Devanagari script

विदितं ते महाबाहो यथा दीक्षां चराम्यहम्‌ । न स तावत्‌ प्रवेक्ष्यामि पुरं ते पूुधुलोचन

Transliteration

viditaṃ te mahābāho yathā dīkṣāṃ carāmy aham | na sa tāvat pravekṣyāmi puraṃ te pṛthulocana ||

Translation

Arjuna nói: “Hỡi bậc đại lực, ngươi vốn đã biết ta đang giữ lễ thọ giới (dīkṣā), đi lại dưới kỷ luật của lời nguyện ấy. Vì vậy, hỡi người mắt rộng, chừng nào lời nguyện chưa viên mãn, ta sẽ không bước vào thành của ngươi.”

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'viditam', 'gloss': 'known, understood'}, {'term': 'te', 'gloss': 'to you'}, {'term': 'mahābāho', 'gloss': 'O mighty-armed (honorific epithet)'}, {'term': 'yathā', 'gloss': 'how, in what manner'}, {'term': 'dīkṣām', 'gloss': 'consecration

• ritual discipline'}, {'term': 'carāmi', 'gloss': 'I practice/observe

• I move about (conduct myself)'}, {'term': 'aham', 'gloss': 'I'}, {'term': 'na', 'gloss': 'not'}, {'term': 'tāvat', 'gloss': 'until then

• so long as'}, {'term': 'pravekṣyāmi', 'gloss': 'I shall enter'}, {'term': 'puram', 'gloss': 'city'}, {'term': 'pṛthulocana', 'gloss': 'O wide-eyed (honorific epithet)'}]

Speaker

अर्जुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Arjuna
• pura (the addressee's city)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights dharmic self-restraint: a vowed discipline (dīkṣā) is to be protected through consistent conduct, even when social convenience or hospitality invites relaxation. Ethical integrity is shown by refusing actions that would compromise the vow.

What is happening in the narrative?

Arjuna addresses a respected person (called “mighty-armed” and “wide-eyed”) and explains that he is currently under a consecratory observance connected with his mission; therefore he will not enter the other’s city until the observance is completed.