Shloka 49

Kṛṣṇa’s Departure, Auspicious Omens, and the Opening of the Uttaṅka Dialogue (कृष्णप्रयाण-निमित्त-उत्तङ्कसंवाद-प्रारम्भः)

Devanagari script

स गच्छ रत्नान्यादाय विविधानि वसूनि च । यच्चाप्यन्यन्मनोज्ञं ते तदप्यादत्स्व सात्वत

Transliteration

sa gaccha ratnāny ādāya vividhāni vasūni ca | yac cāpy anyan mano-jñaṃ te tad apy ādatsva sātvata yadu-nandana keśava |

Translation

玉帝士提罗说道：“去吧，携带各色珍宝与财藏而行。凡你所喜悦的其他物事，也一并取去吧，噢，萨特瓦塔（Sātvata），噢，凯沙瓦（Keśava），雅度族之欢欣。唯赖你的恩泽，我们才得以统御这整个大地，而我们的仇敌亦已被诛灭。”

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'गच्छ (gaccha)', 'meaning': 'go

• depart'}, {'term': 'रत्नानि (ratnāni)', 'meaning': 'jewels

• precious gems'}, {'term': 'आदाय (ādāya)', 'meaning': 'having taken

• taking along'}, {'term': 'विविधानि (vividhāni)', 'meaning': 'various

• manifold'}, {'term': 'वसूनि (vasūni)', 'meaning': 'wealth

• treasures'}, {'term': 'मनोज्ञम् (mano-jñam)', 'meaning': 'pleasing

• delightful'}, {'term': 'ते (te)', 'meaning': 'to you

• your'}, {'term': 'तदपि (tad api)', 'meaning': 'that too

• even that'}, {'term': 'आदत्स्व (ādatsva)', 'meaning': 'take (for yourself)

• accept'}, {'term': 'सात्वत (sātvata)', 'meaning': 'O Sātvata

• epithet of Kṛṣṇa (of the Sātvata/Vṛṣṇi line)'}, {'term': 'यदुनन्दन (yadu-nandana)', 'meaning': 'delight of the Yadus

• Kṛṣṇa'}, {'term': 'केशव (keśava)', 'meaning': 'Keśava

• epithet of Kṛṣṇa'}, {'term': 'प्रसाद (prasāda)', 'meaning': 'grace

• benevolence'}, {'term': 'भूमण्डल (bhū-maṇḍala)', 'meaning': 'the circle of the earth

• the whole earth'}, {'term': 'राज्य (rājya)', 'meaning': 'kingship

• rule'}, {'term': 'शत्रवः (śatravaḥ)', 'meaning': 'enemies'}, {'term': 'हताः (hatāḥ)', 'meaning': 'slain

Speaker

युधिषछ्िर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• युधिष्ठिर (Yudhiṣṭhira)
• केशव / कृष्ण (Keśava/Kṛṣṇa)
• सात्वत (Sātvata)
• यदुनन्दन (Yadu-nandana)
• रत्नानि (jewels)
• वसूनि (treasures/wealth)
• भूमण्डल (the earth/realm)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse foregrounds dharmic gratitude and humility in power: Yudhiṣṭhira attributes political success and the defeat of enemies not to personal prowess but to Kṛṣṇa’s grace, and expresses that gratitude through generous offering—an ethical model of rulership that recognizes higher guidance and repays benefaction.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Ashvamedhika context after the great war, Yudhiṣṭhira addresses Kṛṣṇa, urging him to depart with assorted jewels and wealth and to take anything else he finds pleasing, while acknowledging that the Pandavas’ sovereignty over the earth and the fall of their foes came through Kṛṣṇa’s favor.