Shloka 13

Adhyaya 4 — Jaimini Meets the Dharmapakshis: Four Doubts on the Mahabharata and the Opening of Narayana Doctrine

Sanskrit

एतद्दृष्टं सुबहुशो विपरीतं तथा मया ।

भावाभावसमुच्छेदैरजस्रं व्याकुलं जगत् ॥

Transliteration

etaddṛṣṭaṃ subahuśo viparītaṃ tathā mayā / bhāvābhāvasamucchedair ajastraṃ vyākulaṃ jagat

Translation

Ta cũng đã thấy điều ấy nhiều lần: sự việc diễn ra trái với điều mong đợi. Thế gian không ngừng dao động, luôn bị xáo trộn bởi những đổi thay giữa có và không (sinh khởi và hoại diệt).

Word by Word

• एतत्: this
• एतत्: Karma (कर्म/object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: एतद् (सर्वनाम)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन

• दृष्टम्: seen; observed
• दृष्टम्: Kriya (क्रिया/predicative)
• Type: Verb
• Root: दृश् (धातु) + क्त (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त (PPP) used predicatively; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन (agreeing with एतत्)

• सु-बहुशः: very often; many times
• सु-बहुशः: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: सु (अव्यय) + बहुशस् (अव्यय)
• Form: क्रियाविशेषण (adverb); intensifier सु- + बहुशस् ‘many times’

• विपरीतम्: contrary; reversed
• विपरीतम्: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विपरीत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन (agreeing with एतत्)

• तथा: thus; likewise
• तथा: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा (अव्यय)
• Form: क्रियाविशेषण (adverb)

• मया: by me
• मया: Karana (करण/agent-instrument)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (सर्वनाम)
• Form: सर्वनाम; तृतीया, एकवचन

• भाव-अभाव-समुच्छेदैः: by the alternations/overturnings of being and non-being
• भाव-अभाव-समुच्छेदैः: Karana (करण/instrument)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भाव + अभाव + समुच्छेद (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया, बहुवचन; द्वन्द्व-समासः (भावश्च अभावश्च—तयोः समुच्छेदाः)

• अजस्रम्: unceasingly
• अजस्रम्: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अजस्र (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: क्रियाविशेषणवत् नपुंसक-एकवचन (adverbial accusative)

• व्याकुलम्: agitated; disturbed
• व्याकुलम्: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: व्याकुल (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन (agreeing with जगत्)

• जगत्: the world
• जगत्: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जगत् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

Speakers

• Uncertain from the single-verse extract; likely within the Purāṇic frame-discourse (speaker not confidently assignable without adjacent verses).

Verse Rasa

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Key Themes

• Cosmology
• Impermanence
• Philosophical Reflection
• Karma and unpredictability of worldly outcomes

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

Worldly conditions are inherently unstable: outcomes often reverse, and states continually arise and pass away. Ethically, this encourages vairāgya (measured detachment) and steadiness (dhairya): one should not build one’s peace solely on changing externals, but cultivate discernment and right conduct amid fluctuation.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana (5 characteristics)?

This verse is primarily reflective rather than genealogical; it aligns most naturally with sarga/pratisarga in a broad sense (the ongoing processes of manifestation and dissolution—bhāva/abhāva), though it is not a direct technical account of creation. It functions as a philosophical gloss on the purāṇic view of cyclical change.

What is the esoteric significance?

Bhāva and abhāva can be read as the paired motions of manifestation and withdrawal within prakṛti; the ‘agitation’ (vyākulatā) points to the turbulence of mind and world under guṇas. Esoterically, the instruction is to seek the witnessing stability beyond oscillation—recognizing change as a surface rhythm while grounding awareness in the unshaken inner standpoint.