Shloka 15

उद्योगपर्व (अध्याय १२९) — केशवस्य वैभवप्रदर्शनम् / Krishna’s Theophanic Display in the Kuru Assembly

Devanagari script

पुरा विकुर्वते मूढा: पापात्मान: समागता:

Transliteration

purā vikurvate mūḍhāḥ pāpātmānaḥ samāgatāḥ

Translation

毗湿摩波耶那说：“往昔，那些愚昧而罪性深重之人聚集一处，便开始倒行逆施——扭曲正道，行事乖僻而害人。”

Word by Word

• पुरा: formerly; earlier
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुरा

• विकुर्वते: they act perversely / behave wrongly
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि + कृ
• Form: Lat (present indicative), Atmanepada, 3rd, plural

• मूढाः: deluded; foolish
• मूढाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: मूढ
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

• पापात्मानः: sinful-souled (wicked persons)
• पापात्मानः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पापात्मन्
• Form: masculine, nominative, plural

• समागताः: assembled; having come together
• समागताः: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम् + गम्
• Form: past passive participle (क्त), masculine, nominative, plural

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how moral delusion (mūḍhatā) and sinful intent (pāpātmatā), especially when reinforced by group association (samāgama), lead people to ‘act perversely’—twisting right conduct into harmful, unethical behavior.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana, as narrator, introduces or recalls an earlier instance where a group of misguided, wicked-minded people assembled and began behaving in a distorted, wrongful manner—setting a moral backdrop for the events being recounted in this section of the Udyoga Parva.