Shloka 8

Devanagari script

तस्य विश्रमणादेष प्रसादो मत्कृतस्तव । रक्ष्यसे तेन दुर्बुद्धे नात्मवीर्याद्‌ टद्रमाधम,दुर्बद्धे! उनके विश्राम करनेसे ही मैंने तुमपर यह कृपा की थी, इसीसे तुम्हारी रक्षा हो रही है। द्रमाधम! तुम अपने बलसे नहीं बचे हुए हो

Transliteration

tasya viśramaṇād eṣa prasādo matkṛtas tava | rakṣyase tena durbuddhe nātmavīryād druma-adhama ||

Translation

Bhīṣma nói: “Chính vì Người đã nghỉ nơi ấy mà ta ban ân này cho ngươi. Chỉ nhờ vậy ngươi mới được che chở, đồ ngu—chứ không phải nhờ sức dũng mãnh của ngươi, hỡi kẻ hèn mạt giữa loài người.”

Word by Word

तस्यof him/that

विश्रमणात्from (his) resting; due to (his) repose

एषःthis

प्रसादःfavor; grace

मत्कृतःdone by me; made by me

तवfor you / of you

रक्ष्यसेyou will be protected

तेनby that; because of that

दुर्बुद्धेO evil-minded one

नnot

आत्मवीर्यात्from your own prowess; by your own strength

द्रमाधमO lowest of trees (abusive epithet)

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

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?

Bhīṣma stresses that survival or protection can come from another’s restraint and one’s own received clemency, not from self-congratulated strength; pride in one’s ‘valor’ is ethically misplaced when one is spared by others’ self-control.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhīṣma rebukes an unnamed interlocutor, stating that the person is being spared due to someone else’s desisting/resting, and that Bhīṣma’s own favor (prasāda) is what protects him—sharply denying that the person’s safety is due to his own prowess.