Shloka 7
बकवधोत्तर-प्रशमनम् | Post-slaying Stabilization after Baka’s Death
हृष्टो मानुषमांसस्थ महाकायो महाबल: । आध्राय मानुषं गन्धं भगिनीमिदमब्रवीत्,मनुष्यका मांस मिलनेकी सम्भावनासे उसे बड़ा हर्ष हुआ। उस महाबली विशालकाय राक्षसने मनुष्यकी गन्ध पाकर अपनी बहिनसे इस प्रकार कहा--
hṛṣṭo mānuṣa-māṁsa-stha mahākāyo mahābalaḥ | āghrāya mānuṣaṁ gandhaṁ bhaginīm idam abravīt ||
Vaiśampāyana sprach: Erfreut über die Aussicht, Menschenfleisch zu erlangen, sprach der mächtige, riesenleibige Rākṣasa, nachdem er Menschengeruch gewittert hatte, so zu seiner Schwester.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights an ethical polarity: the rākṣasa’s joy at harming humans represents adharma—life driven by appetite and violence—setting up a moral contrast with the human dharmic order that such predation endangers.
A powerful, gigantic rākṣasa detects the smell of a human, becomes excited at the chance of obtaining human flesh, and then addresses his sister, initiating the next action in the episode.