Shloka 20
Adhyaya 5 — Tvashta’s Wrath, the Birth of Vritra, and the Divine Descent as the Pandavas
पक्षिण ऊचुः तेजोभागैस्ततो देवा अवतेरुर्दिवो महीम् । प्रजानामुपकारार्थं भूभारहरणाय च ॥
pakṣiṇa ūcuḥ tejobhāgais tato devā avaterur divo mahīm | prajānām upakārārthaṁ bhūbhāra-haraṇāya ca ||
قالت الطيور: ثم إن الآلهة، بأجزاءٍ من بهائهم الذاتي، هبطوا من السماء إلى الأرض—لنفع الكائنات الحيّة ولرفع العبء الواقع على الأرض.
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FAQs
Divine intervention is portrayed as purposive and ethical: the descent of higher powers is justified not for display, but for lokahita—protecting beings, re-establishing dharma, and relieving the world from oppressive forces that become an ‘Earth-burden’ (bhūbhāra).
This aligns chiefly with Vaṁśānucarita/Carita (accounts of divine and heroic descents and deeds) and secondarily with Manvantara/Dharma-restoration motifs, since ‘removal of Earth’s burden’ is a recurring Purāṇic marker for epochal correction within cosmic time.
‘Tejobhāga’ suggests that incarnational action is a calibrated emanation of divine potency rather than the whole transcendent reality becoming limited. Symbolically, ‘descending from heaven to earth’ signifies consciousness (deva-tejas) entering the field of action (mahī) to dissolve the accumulated weight of disorder (bhūbhāra) and restore balance.