Shloka 30

Adhyāya 32: Tāpasānāṃ Darśanaṃ — Ascetics Seek to Identify the Pāṇḍavas

Devanagari script

साध्वाचारा दमोपेता दाननिर्धूतकल्मषा: । ऋजव: शुचय: शान्ता हिंसानृतविवर्जिता:

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca | sādhvācārā damopetā dānanirdhūtakalmaṣāḥ | ṛjavāḥ śucayaḥ śāntā hiṃsānṛtavivarjitāḥ |

Translation

毗舍波耶那说：凡安住善行、具自制力、以布施涤除罪垢，质直清净、寂静安和，远离杀害与虚妄者——婆罗多啊——听闻此奇妙篇章，必得至上之境。

Word by Word

• {'vaiśampāyana uvāca': 'Vaiśampāyana said', 'sādhv-ācāra (sādhvācārāḥ)': 'good conduct

• virtuous practice', 'dama (damopetāḥ)': 'self-control

• restraint of the senses', 'dāna (dānanirdhūta-)': 'gift-giving

• generosity', 'nirdhūta': 'shaken off

• removed', 'kalmaṣa (kalmaṣāḥ)': 'sin

• impurity', 'ṛju (ṛjavāḥ)': 'straightforward

• simple in intention', 'śuci (śucayaḥ)': 'pure

• morally pure', 'śānta (śāntāḥ)': 'peaceful

• composed', 'hiṃsā': 'violence

• injury', 'anṛta': 'falsehood

• untruth', 'vivarjita (vivarjitāḥ)': 'avoiding

• abstaining from', 'bharata': 'O Bhārata

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Bhārata

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse teaches that the fruit of hearing this parvan is highest for those who cultivate dharmic virtues—good conduct, self-restraint, generosity that purifies, straightforwardness, purity, peace, and abstention from violence and falsehood—linking spiritual benefit to ethical living.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana, as narrator, describes the kind of listener who gains the supreme result from hearing this ‘wonderful’ portion of the Mahābhārata, functioning as a phalaśruti-style statement that commends both the text and the virtues aligned with it.