Shloka 33

ययातेर्वानप्रस्थतपःस्वर्गारोहणम् | Yayāti’s Vānaprastha Austerities and Ascent to Heaven

Devanagari script

शुक्र उवाच अधर्मात्‌ त्वां विमुज्चामि वृणु त्वं वरमीप्सितम्‌ | अस्मिन्‌ विवाहे मा म्लासीरहं पापं नुदामि ते

Transliteration

śukra uvāca: adharmāt tvāṁ vimucyāmi vṛṇu tvaṁ varam īpsitam | asmin vivāhe mā mlāsīr ahaṁ pāpaṁ nudāmi te ||

Translation

舒克罗说道：“大王，我已使你脱离不法（adharma）的污垢。你可自择所愿之恩赐。关于此婚事，莫令心中生起悔恨；我为你驱除罪垢。”

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'adharmāt', 'definition': 'from adharma

• from unrighteousness/ethical fault'}, {'term': 'tvām', 'definition': 'you (accusative singular)'}, {'term': 'vimucyāmi', 'definition': 'I set free, release, absolve'}, {'term': 'vṛṇu', 'definition': 'choose! (imperative of √vṛ)'}, {'term': 'varam', 'definition': 'a boon, gift, granted favor'}, {'term': 'īpsitam', 'definition': 'desired, wished-for'}, {'term': 'asmin vivāhe', 'definition': 'in/with regard to this marriage'}, {'term': 'mā', 'definition': 'do not (prohibitive particle)'}, {'term': 'mlāsīḥ (mlāsīr)', 'definition': 'do not be dejected/faint

• do not feel despondency or moral sinking'}, {'term': 'aham', 'definition': 'I'}, {'term': 'pāpam', 'definition': 'sin, demerit, moral fault'}, {'term': 'nudāmi', 'definition': 'I drive away, remove (from √nud)'}, {'term': 'te', 'definition': 'your/to you (genitive/dative enclitic)'}]

Speaker

शुक्र उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śukra (Śukrācārya)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames moral repair as possible through authoritative absolution and conscious ethical reassurance: when a disputed act (here, a marriage) burdens the mind with guilt, a dharmic authority can declare release from adharma, remove pāpa, and restore inner steadiness—so that one proceeds without corrosive remorse.

What is happening in the narrative?

Śukra speaks to a person troubled by the ethical implications of a marriage. He declares that he is freeing the person from adharma, invites them to ask for a desired boon, and explicitly instructs them not to feel dejection or guilt about the marriage because he will remove the sin associated with it.