Shloka 8
अव्यक्त–प्रकृति–इन्द्रियविचारः
The Unmanifest, Prakṛtis, and the Sense-Complex
Devanagari script
नाधर्म: कारणापेक्षी कर्तारमभिमुज्चति । कर्ता खलु यथाकालं तत: समभिपद्यते
Transliteration
nādharmo kāraṇāpekṣī kartāram abhimuñcati | kartā khalu yathākālaṃ tataḥ samabhipadyate ||
Translation
“非正法并不依赖眼前的时机才结果；它不放过作恶之人。待到时辰成熟，那作恶者必定遭遇并承受其罪业之报。”
Word by Word
नnot
न:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootन
अधर्मःunrighteousness, sin
अधर्मः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootअधर्म
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
कारणापेक्षीdependent on a cause/occasion; waiting for an opportunity
कारणापेक्षी:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootकारण-अपेक्षिन्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
कर्तारम्the doer (agent)
कर्तारम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootकर्तृ
FormMasculine, Accusative, Singular
अभिमुञ्चतिreleases, lets go of
अभिमुञ्चति:
TypeVerb
Rootमुच्
FormPresent, Third, Singular, Parasmaipada
कर्ताthe doer
कर्ता:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootकर्तृ
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
खलुindeed, surely
खलु:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootखलु
यथाकालम्in due time, at the proper time
यथाकालम्:
Adhikarana
TypeIndeclinable
Rootयथा-काल
ततःthen, thereafter; from that
ततः:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootततः
समभिपद्यतेbefalls, comes upon, reaches (him)
समभिपद्यते:
TypeVerb
Rootपद्
FormPresent, Third, Singular, Atmanepada
Speaker
पराशर उवाच
Characters & Entities
प
पराशर (Parāśara)क
कर्ता (the doer/agent)Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)
Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)
Philosophical Teaching
Political Layer
Meter (Chandas)
Sandhi Notes
Educational Q&A
Adharma clings to its agent and yields its result inevitably; even if the consequence is delayed, time ripens the fruit of wrongdoing, and the doer must face it.
Parāśara is instructing the listener in Shānti Parva on ethical causality: wrongful acts are not nullified by delay or lack of immediate punishment; the moral result follows the perpetrator until the right time for fruition.