Shloka 39

Devanagari script

ते समासाद्य सरितं पुण्यामोघवतीं नृप । न्यवसन्नथ तां रात्रिं पाण्डवा हतशत्रव:,नरेश्वर! जिनके शत्रु मारे गये थे, उन पाण्डवोंने उस रातमें पुण्यमलिला ओघवती नदीके तटपर जाकर निवास किया

Transliteration

te samāsādya saritaṃ puṇyām oghavatīṃ nṛpa | nyavasann atha tāṃ rātriṃ pāṇḍavā hataśatravaḥ ||

Translation

Tâu Đại vương, đến được dòng sông thiêng Oghavatī, các Pāṇḍava—những người đã diệt kẻ thù—đã trú lại đêm ấy trên bờ sông. Đó là một khoảng dừng ngắn sau bạo lực: kẻ chiến thắng tìm nơi thanh tịnh, cát tường để nghỉ, như để lấy lại sự điềm tĩnh và trở về với nền tảng nghi lễ–đạo lý giữa hậu cảnh chiến tranh.

Word by Word

तेthey (those)

समासाद्यhaving reached/approached

सरितम्river

पुण्याम्holy, sacred

ओघवतीम्Oghavatī (name of the river)

नृपO king

न्यवसन्they stayed/dwelt

अथthen/and then

ताम्that (her/that one)

रात्रिम्night

पाण्डवाःthe Pāṇḍavas

हतशत्रवःwhose enemies were slain

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Pāṇḍavas

Oghavatī river

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 after justified victory in war, one should seek calm and moral re-centering; the choice of a sacred riverbank suggests purification, restraint, and reflection rather than triumphalism.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira reports that the Pāṇḍavas reached the holy river Oghavatī and spent the night there on its bank, marking a pause in their journey amid the post-battle events of Śalya Parva.