Shloka 14

Devanagari script

देवलोकच्युता: सर्वे तथा विरजसो नृप । त्रयोदश सहस्त्राणि वर्षाणां ते जनाधिप

Transliteration

sañjaya uvāca |

devalokacyutāḥ sarve tathā virajaso nṛpa |

trayodaśa sahasrāṇi varṣāṇāṁ te janādhipa ||

Translation

三阇耶说道：“大王啊，他们全都从天界堕落而来；同样地，如今已离欲无垢。人中之主啊，他们的寿命为一万三千年。”

Word by Word

• देवलोकच्युताः: fallen from the world of the gods
• देवलोकच्युताः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: देवलोकच्युत
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• सर्वे: all
• सर्वे: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सर्व
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

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

• विरजसः: free from dust/impurity; stainless
• विरजसः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विरजस्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

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

• त्रयोदश: thirteen
• Type: Adjective
• Root: त्रयोदश
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Plural

• सहस्राणि: thousands
• सहस्राणि: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: सहस्र
• Form: Neuter, Nominative/Accusative, Plural

• वर्षाणाम्: of years
• Type: Noun
• Root: वर्ष
• Form: Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• ते: they
• ते: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• जनाधिप: O lord of people (king)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जनाधिप
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

Speaker

संजय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Sañjaya
• nṛpa (the king, i.e., Dhṛtarāṣṭra by context)
• devaloka (heaven)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even exalted heavenly states are not permanent; beings can fall from devaloka, and the text frames their condition in terms of guṇas—here, becoming virajasaḥ (free from rajas), highlighting moral-psychological purity as a significant marker beyond mere celestial status.

What is happening in the narrative?

Sañjaya reports to the king about certain beings (contextually, a group under discussion in the chapter) who have departed from the divine realm and describes their purified state and the measure of their lifespan as thirteen thousand years.