Adhyaya 26 — Madālasa Names Alarka and Reorients Him Toward Kshatriya Duty
यज्ञौरनेकैर्विबुधानजस्त्रमर्थैर्द्विजान् प्रीणय संश्रितांश्च ।
स्त्रियश्च कामैरतुलैश्चिराय युद्धैश्चारींस्तोṣयितासि वीर ॥
yajñair anekair vibudhān ajasram arthair dvijān prīṇaya saṃśritāṃś ca | striyaś ca kāmair atulaiś cirāya yuddhaiś cārīṃs toṣayitāsi vīra ||
بقرابين كثيرة، أَرضِ الآلهة على الدوام؛ وبالمال، أَسعِدْ ذوي الولادتين (البراهمة) ومن يعتمدون عليك. وبملذّات لا نظير لها، أَرضِ زوجاتك زمانًا طويلاً؛ وبالمعارك، أيها البطل، أَرضِ أعداءك (أي لاقِهم في قتالٍ مشروع).
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The verse sketches a balanced royal life: ritual support of cosmic order (yajña), economic redistribution (support of dvijas and dependents), legitimate household enjoyment, and disciplined kṣātra action against enemies—each in its proper sphere.
Ethical instruction attached to royal narrative; it functions as normative guidance for vaṃśānucarita (how rulers in a lineage ought to behave), rather than cosmogenesis or manvantara chronology.
The four ‘satisfactions’ map to harmonizing domains: divine (devas), social-intellectual (dvijas), domestic (wives/household), and adversarial (enemies). Integrated sovereignty is inner integration of these forces.