Shloka 32
Gandhamādana-praveśa and the Sudden Storm (गन्धमादनप्रवेशः — चण्डवातवर्षवर्णनम्)
शिवा देवी महाभागा सर्वसस्यप्ररोहिणी । कस्य चैव प्रभावाद्धि योजनानां शतं गता,सम्पूर्ण शस्योंका उत्पादन करनेवाली यह कल्याणमयी महाभागा वसुधादेवी किसके प्रभावसे सैकड़ों योजन नीचे धँस गयी थी
śivā devī mahābhāgā sarvasasyaprarohiṇī | kasya caiva prabhāvāddhi yojanānāṃ śataṃ gatā ||
قالَ يُدْهِشْتِيرَا: «هذه الإلهةُ الأرضُ المباركةُ العظيمةُ الحظِّ، المُنبِتةُ لكلِّ الزروع—بأيِّ تأثيرٍ ومن سلطانِ مَن هَوَتْ إلى عمقِ مئةِ يوجَنَة؟»
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse models dhārmic inquiry: even a righteous king like Yudhiṣṭhira seeks the hidden cause behind extraordinary events, implying that cosmic phenomena are connected to moral and spiritual powers rather than being random.
Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a question about the Earth Goddess—praised as the source of agricultural abundance—and asks whose extraordinary influence caused her to descend/sink a hundred yojanas, setting up an explanation of a past event and its causal agent.