Shloka 6

Adhyāya 164: Gautama as Guest; Kaśyapa’s Satkāra and the Fourfold Arthagati; Journey to Virūpākṣa

Devanagari script

एतेषामुदयं स्थान क्षयं च पृथिवीपते । हन्त ते कथयिष्यामि क्रोधस्योत्पत्तिमादित:

Transliteration

eteṣām udayaṃ sthānaṃ kṣayaṃ ca pṛthivīpate | hanta te kathayiṣyāmi krodhasyotpattim āditaḥ ||

Translation

毗湿摩说道：“大地之主啊，我将为你说明这些过失的生起、所依之处与衰灭。来吧——首先，我要告诉你，忿怒是如何出生的。”

Word by Word

• एतेषाम्: of these
• एतेषाम्: Sambandha
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: एतद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Plural

• उदयम्: rise/origin
• उदयम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: उदय
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• स्थानम्: abode/seat
• स्थानम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्थान
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• क्षयम्: decay/destruction
• क्षयम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्षय
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• पृथिवीपते: O lord of the earth (king)
• पृथिवीपते: Sambodhana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पृथिवीपति
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Singular

• हन्त: indeed/lo!/well then
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हन्त

• ते: to you
• ते: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Dative, Singular

• कथयिष्यामि: I shall tell
• Type: Verb
• Root: कथय्
• Form: Simple Future (Luṭ), First, Singular, Parasmaipada

• क्रोधस्य: of anger
• क्रोधस्य: Sambandha
• Type: Noun
• Root: क्रोध
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• उत्पत्तिम्: origin/arising
• उत्पत्तिम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: उत्पत्ति
• Form: Feminine, Accusative, Singular

• आदितः: from the beginning
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: आदि

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bhīṣma
• Pṛthivīpati (the king, i.e., Yudhiṣṭhira)
• Krodha (anger)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Bhīṣma frames anger as a moral-psychological problem with a knowable lifecycle—origin, support, and dissolution—implying that ethical mastery begins by understanding how anger arises and what sustains it.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction to the king, Bhīṣma transitions into a systematic explanation of inner faults, announcing that he will begin by describing the genesis of anger (krodha).