Shloka 36
Adhyāya 283: Varṇa-vṛtti, Nyāya-ārjana, and the Decline-and-Restoration of Dharma (वर्णवृत्तिः न्यायार्जनं च)
ते निपेतुस्ततस्तूर्ण दक्षयज्ञविहिंसया । भीमरूपा महाकाया: शतशो5थ सहसत्रश:
te nipetustatas tūrṇaṁ dakṣayajñavihiṁsayā | bhīmarūpā mahākāyāḥ śataśo 'tha sahasraśaḥ ||
তাৰ পিছত দক্ষৰ যজ্ঞ ধ্বংস হ’ব ধৰোঁতেই তেওঁলোক তৎক্ষণাৎ নামি পৰিল—ভয়ংকৰ ৰূপ, মহাকায় দেহ—প্ৰথমে শত শতকৈ, তাৰ পিছত সহস্ৰ সহস্ৰকৈ।
दक्ष उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how violence and disruption—especially around sacred or socially binding institutions like yajña—can rapidly multiply into large-scale chaos. It implicitly warns that ritual without humility and ethical restraint becomes vulnerable to collapse and harm.
Dakṣa describes a sudden mass descent/fall of terrifying, gigantic beings amid the violent disruption of Dakṣa’s sacrifice, emphasizing the scale and immediacy of the calamity—hundreds, then thousands.