Shloka 19

Sāvitrī-Upākhyāna: Dyumatsena’s Restoration and the Return to Kāmyaka

Conclusion

Devanagari script

यैरियं सवना साद्रि: सपुरा सागराम्बरा । विचेतव्या मही वीर सग्रामनगराकरा,“वीर! वे सब लोग वन, पर्वत, पुर, ग्राम, नगर तथा आकरोंसहित समुद्रवसना इस सारी पृथ्वीपर सीताकी खोज करेंगे

Transliteration

yair iyaṁ savanā sādrīḥ sapurā sāgarāmbarā | vicetavyā mahī vīra sagrāmanagarākarā ||

Translation

Hỡi dũng sĩ! Bởi những người ấy, toàn cõi địa cầu này—được biển cả bao bọc, có rừng núi, thành thị, thôn làng, đô trấn và các mỏ quặng—sẽ phải được lục soát để tìm Sītā.

Word by Word

यैःby whom/with whom (by which people)

इयम्this

सवनाwith forests

साद्रिःwith mountains

सपुराwith cities

सागराम्बराhaving the ocean as its garment (ocean-girt)

विचेतव्याis to be searched/examined

महीthe earth

वीरO hero

सग्रामनगराकराwith villages, towns, and mines

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mārkaṇḍeya

mahī (the earth)

sāgara (ocean/sea)

vana (forests)

adri (mountains)

pura/nagara (cities/towns)

grāma (villages)

ākara (mines/resource deposits)

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?

The verse emphasizes exhaustive effort as a duty: when a righteous objective is at stake, one must search without omission—across all terrains and human habitations—showing perseverance and thoroughness in action.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mārkaṇḍeya addresses a hero and urges that the entire world—forests, mountains, settlements, and even mines—be systematically searched, indicating an all-encompassing quest (in context, the search for Sītā).