Shloka 4

अध्याय ३३ — धृतराष्ट्रस्य कुशलप्रश्नाः तथा विदुरस्य योगसमाधिः

Chapter 33: Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s Welfare-Inquiries and Vidura’s Yogic Absorption

Devanagari script

वैशम्पायन उवाच अविप्रणाश: सर्वेषां कर्मणामिति निश्चय: । कर्मजानि शरीराणि तथैवाकृतयो नृप

Transliteration

Vaiśampāyana uvāca: avipraṇāśaḥ sarveṣāṃ karmaṇām iti niścayaḥ | karmajāni śarīrāṇi tathaivākṛtayo nṛpa ||

Translation

毗舍婆耶那曰：“大王，此乃定论：诸业无不受报，未结其果，终不消亡。众生所得之身，以及所受种种形态与境遇，皆由业力而生。”

Word by Word

• वैशम्पायनः: Vaishampayana
• वैशम्पायनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वैशम्पायन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उवाच: said
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: Perfect, 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• अविप्रणाशः: non-destruction; not perishing
• अविप्रणाशः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: अविप्रणाश
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• सर्वेषाम्: of all
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• कर्मणाम्: of actions (karmas)
• Type: Noun
• Root: कर्मन्
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• इति: thus
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: इति

• निश्चयः: certainty; settled conclusion
• निश्चयः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: निश्चय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• कर्मजानि: born of karma; produced by actions
• Type: Adjective
• Root: कर्मज
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• शरीराणि: bodies
• शरीराणि: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शरीर
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Plural

• तथा: so; likewise
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• एव: indeed; just
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव

• आकृतयः: forms; shapes; appearances
• आकृतयः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: आकृति
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Plural

• नृप: O king
• Type: Noun
• Root: नृप
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• nṛpa (king, addressee)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Karma is inescapably consequential: actions do not simply vanish; they mature into results. Embodiment itself—one’s body and the particular form or condition one experiences—is presented as a product of past deeds.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana addresses a king and states a doctrinal conclusion about moral causality: the inevitability of karmic fruition and the karmic origin of bodies and life-conditions, setting an ethical frame for interpreting suffering, fate, and responsibility.