Shloka 3
Adhyāya 62: Sañjaya’s Admonition to Dhṛtarāṣṭra on Rāja-dharma and Consequence
धूमं दृष्टवागमत् सत्र पृषदाज्यमवाप स: | त॑ दृष्टवा युवनाश्वस्य जठरे सूनुतां गतम्
dhūmaṃ dṛṣṭvāgamat satra pṛṣadājyamavāpa saḥ | taṃ dṛṣṭvā yuvanāśvasya jaṭhare sūnutāṃ gatam ||
নাৰদে ক’লে—ধোঁৱা দেখি তেওঁ সেই সত্রযজ্ঞস্থললৈ গ’ল আৰু তাত ঘৃতৰ আহুতি লাভ কৰিলে। পাছত সেই (ঘৃত) যুবনাশ্বৰ উদৰত স্থিত দেখি, সেয়া সন্তানভাৱলৈ গতি কৰিলে।
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how ritual acts (yajña and its oblations) are portrayed as potent forces that can shape destiny and lineage. It also implies an ethical caution: sacred substances and rites, when handled without due awareness, may lead to unforeseen consequences—yet those consequences are still framed within a larger dharmic order.
Nārada narrates that someone, noticing the smoke of a sacrifice, arrives at the sacrificial session and receives a ghee oblation. That oblation is then described as entering (or being present in) King Yuvanāśva’s belly and becoming the cause of offspring—setting up a miraculous conception/birth motif.