Shloka 11

Jaradkāru Encounters the Pitṛs

Jaratkāru-Pitṛdarśana

Devanagari script

आविष्ट: स हि कोपेन शशाप नृपतिं तदा । वार्युपस्पृश्य तेजस्वी क्रोधवेगबलात्कृत:,वह तेजस्वी बालक रोषके आवेशमें आकर प्रचण्ड क्रोधके वेगसे युक्त हो गया था। उसने जलसे आचमन करके हाथमें जल लेकर उस समय राजा परीक्षितको इस प्रकार शाप दिया

Transliteration

āviṣṭaḥ sa hi kopena śaśāpa nṛpatiṃ tadā | vāryupaspṛśya tejasvī krodhavegabalātkṛtaḥ ||

Translation

Vom Zorn überwältigt, sprach der strahlende Knabe daraufhin einen Fluch über den König. Nachdem er zuvor rituell Wasser geschlürft hatte (ācaman), nahm er Wasser in die Hand und—vom Drang und der Wucht des Zorns getrieben—stieß die Verwünschung gegen König Parīkṣit aus.

Word by Word

आविष्टःpossessed, seized (by)

सःhe

हिindeed, for

कोपेनby anger

शशापcursed

नृपतिम्the king

तदाthen, at that time

वारिwater

उपस्पृश्यhaving sipped/touched (water) for purification

तेजस्वीradiant, powerful

क्रोधवेगबलात्कृतःimpelled/produced by the force of anger

Speaker

कृश उवाच

Characters & Entities

King Parīkṣit

the tejasvī bālaka (the boy/young sage)

water (vāri) used for ācamana

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how anger (krodha), when it seizes a person, can override discernment and dharmic restraint, leading to harmful speech-acts like a curse; it also shows the gravity attributed to words spoken with ritual formality.

What is happening in the narrative?

A powerful boy, inflamed with anger, performs ācamana and takes water in hand—formal preliminaries for a solemn utterance—and then curses King Parīkṣit.