विश्वामित्र उवाच । जनकेनेति पृष्टेन शुकस्य कथितं तदा । तदेव यत्पुरा प्रोक्तं तस्य पित्रा महात्मना ॥ ३० ॥
viśvāmitra uvāca | janakēnēti pṛṣṭēna śukasya kathitaṁ tadā | tadēva yatpurā prōktaṁ tasya pitrā mahātmanā || 30 ||
Translation
Viśvāmitra said: Asked this, Janaka then told Śuka the very same thing that his great-souled father had told him before.
Word by word
- viśvāmitra
- Viśvāmitra
- uvāca
- said
- janakēna
- by Janaka
- iti
- this
- pṛṣṭēna
- asked
- śukasya
- Śuka
- kathitaṁ
- was told
- tadā
- then
- tad
- (tat) that
- ēva
- very same
- yat
- which
- purā
- before
- prōktaṁ
- had told
- tasya
- his
- pitrā
- father
- mahātmanā
- great-souled
Meaning
Viśvāmitra notes, without comment, that Janaka gave the same teaching that Vyāsa had given (tad eva yat purā proktam). Nothing new, nothing more. If the knowledge were in the words, Śuka would have rested the first time. The difference is not in what is said but in how it is received: the same truth, heard by a mind made ready by humility and testing, takes hold.