Shloka 47

Devanagari script

विफल क्रियमाणं तत्‌ समवेक्ष्य शतक्रतुः । भूय: संवर्धयामास तद्वर्ष पाकशासन:

Transliteration

viphala-kriyamāṇaṃ tat samavekṣya śatakratuḥ | bhūyaḥ saṃvardhayāmāsa tadvarṣa pākaśāsanaḥ ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: Als Śatakratu (Indra), der Pākaśāsana, sah, dass sein Versuch zunichte gemacht wurde, steigerte er jenen Steinhagel abermals.

Word by Word

• विफलम्: fruitless, ineffective
• विफलम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: विफल
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• क्रियमाणम्: being done, being made
• क्रियमाणम्: Karma
• Type: Verb
• Root: कृ
• Form: Present passive participle (शानच्), Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• तत्: that
• तत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• समवेक्ष्य: having observed, seeing
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्+अव+ईक्ष्
• Form: Absolutive/Gerund (ल्यप्), Parasmaipada (usage-neutral here)

• शतक्रतुः: Indra (he whose rites are a hundred)
• शतक्रतुः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शतक्रतु
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• भूयः: again, further
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: भूयस्

• संवर्धयामास: caused to increase, intensified
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्+वृध् (caus.)
• Form: Periphrastic perfect (लिट्-परस्मैपद, आमास-प्रयोग), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

• तत्: that (same thing)
• तत्: Karma
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• वर्षम्: rain, shower
• वर्षम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: वर्ष
• Form: Neuter, Accusative, Singular

• पाकशासनः: Indra (Punisher of Pāka)
• पाकशासनः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: पाकशासन
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśampāyana
• Indra (Śatakratu, Pākaśāsana)
• rain/downpour (varṣa; context: stone-rain)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Unchecked anger and wounded pride tend to escalate force rather than restore order; the episode cautions that power used reactively can become self-defeating when met by steadiness and competence.

What is happening in the narrative?

Indra observes that his previous downpour (understood in context as a destructive shower, such as stones) has been neutralized, and he responds by increasing the intensity of the same assault again.