स चापि तदु ह पितृसन्निधावेवासध्रीचीनमिव स्म करोति छन्दांस्यध्यापयिष्यन्सह व्याहृतिभि: सप्रणवशिरस्त्रिपदीं सावित्रीं ग्रैष्मवासन्तिकान्मासानधीयानमप्यसमवेतरूपं ग्राहयामास ॥ ५ ॥
sa capi tad u ha pitr-sannidhav evasadhricinam iva sma karoti chandamsy adhyapayisyan saha vyahrtibhih sapranava-siras tripadim savitrim graisma-vasantikan masan adhiyanam apy asamaveta-rupam grahayam asa.
- sah
- he (Jada Bharata)
- ca
- also
- api
- indeed
- tat u ha
- that which was instructed by his father
- pitr-sannidhau
- in the presence of his father
- eva
- even
- asadhricinam iva
- not correct, as if he could not understand anything
- sma karoti
- used to perform
- chandamsi adhyapayisyan
- desiring to teach him Vedic mantras during the months beginning with Sravana or during the period of Caturmasya
- saha
- along with
- vyahrtibhih
- the utterance of the names of the heavenly planets (bhuh, bhuvah, svah)
- sa-pranava-sirah
- headed by omkara
- tri-padim
- three-footed
- savitrim
- the Gayatri mantra
- graisma-vasantikan
- for four months, beginning with Caitra, on the fifteenth of May
- masan
- the months
- adhiyanam api
- although fully studying
- asamaveta-rupam
- in an incomplete form
- grahayam asa
- he made him learn
Jada Bharata behaved before his father like a fool, despite his father’s adequately instructing him in Vedic knowledge. He behaved in that way so that his father would know that he was unfit for instruction and would abandon the attempt to instruct him further. He would behave in a completely opposite way. Although instructed to wash his hands after evacuating, he would wash them before. Nonetheless, his father wanted to give him Vedic instructions during the spring and summer. He tried to teach him the Gayatri mantra along with omkara and vyahrti, but after four months, his father still was not successful in instructing him.