Shloka 66

Śoka-śamana: Kṛṣṇa’s Consolation and Nārada’s Exempla to Sṛñjaya

Chapter 29

Devanagari script

सर्वा रथगता: कन्या रथा: सर्वे चतुर्युजः । शतं शतं रथे नागा: पद्मिनो हेममालिन:

Transliteration

sarvā rathagatāḥ kanyā rathāḥ sarve caturyujaḥ | śataṃ śataṃ rathe nāgāḥ padmino hemamālinaḥ ||

Translation

Vāyu nói: “Tất cả các thiếu nữ đều ngồi trên chiến xa. Mỗi chiến xa do bốn con ngựa kéo. Và sau mỗi chiến xa là một trăm voi—loại ‘Padmin’—được trang sức bằng vòng hoa vàng và mang dấu hiệu hoa sen trên trán.”

Word by Word

• सर्वाः: all
• सर्वाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• रथगताः: gone/being in chariots; seated in chariots
• रथगताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: रथगत
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• कन्याः: maidens, girls
• कन्याः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: कन्या
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• रथाः: chariots
• रथाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: रथ
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

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

• चतुर्युजः: four-yoked (with four horses)
• चतुर्युजः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: चतुर्युज
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• शतम्: a hundred
• शतम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• शतम्: a hundred (i.e., hundred by hundred)
• शतम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शत
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Singular

• रथे: on/at/behind the chariot (in relation to the chariot)
• रथे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: रथ
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• नागाः: elephants
• नागाः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: नाग
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• पद्मिनः: lotus-marked; having lotus signs
• पद्मिनः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: पद्मिन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• हेममालिनः: wearing golden garlands
• हेममालिनः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: हेममालिन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• वायुदेव (Vāyudeva)
• कन्या (maidens)
• रथ (chariots)
• चतुर्युज (four-horse teams)
• नाग (elephants)
• पद्मिन (Padmin-class elephants)
• हेममाला (gold garlands)
• पद्मचिह्न (lotus marks/emblems)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse primarily offers descriptive narration rather than direct moral instruction; implicitly, it highlights the cultural ideal of auspicious order and royal magnificence—where prosperity and careful arrangement (well-yoked chariots, auspiciously marked elephants) signify legitimacy, status, and the outward signs of a well-governed realm.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva describes a grand procession: maidens seated in separate chariots, each chariot drawn by four horses, and each accompanied by a large retinue of auspicious ‘Padmin’ elephants adorned with golden garlands and lotus emblems.