Shloka 8

राजसूयविचारः — Deliberation on the Rajasuya and the Summoning of Kṛṣṇa

Devanagari script

पितृलोकगतकश्चैव त्वया विप्र पिता मम । दृष्ट: पाण्डुर्महा भाग: कथं वापि समागत:ः

Transliteration

pitṛlokagatakśa caiva tvayā vipra pitā mama | dṛṣṭaḥ pāṇḍur mahābhāgaḥ kathaṃ vāpi samāgataḥ ||

Translation

尤提士提罗说道：“婆罗门啊，你曾前往祖灵之界（Pitṛloka）；在那里你也见到了我那高贵的父亲般度（Pāṇḍu）。他是如何来与你相会的？又对你说了什么？请告诉我，受敬的尊者。我心中迫切，渴望从你口中听闻这一切。”

Word by Word

• {'pitṛloka': 'the world/realm of the Pitṛs (ancestral Fathers)', 'gata': 'gone to

• having reached', 'tvayā': 'by you', 'vipra': 'brāhmaṇa

• learned priest/sage', 'pitā': 'father', 'mama': 'my', 'dṛṣṭaḥ': 'seen', 'pāṇḍuḥ': 'Pāṇḍu (father of the Pāṇḍavas)', 'mahābhāgaḥ': 'highly fortunate

• illustrious', 'katham': 'how?', 'vā api': 'or even

• in what manner at all', 'samāgataḥ': 'met

Speaker

युधिछ्िर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Yudhiṣṭhira
• Pāṇḍu
• Pitṛloka
• Vipra (brāhmaṇa interlocutor)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights dharmic reverence for one’s father and ancestors, and the ethical impulse to seek truthful knowledge from a qualified brāhmaṇa. Yudhiṣṭhira’s eagerness is not curiosity for its own sake but a respectful, duty-oriented inquiry into ancestral welfare and the moral order governing the afterlife.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a brāhmaṇa who has reportedly visited Pitṛloka and asks whether he saw Pāṇḍu there. He requests details of how the meeting occurred and what Pāṇḍu said, expressing strong eagerness to hear the account.