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Shloka 70

Śama-prāptiḥ — Gautamī–Lubdhaka–Pannaga–Mṛtyu–Kāla-saṃvāda

Restraint through the Analysis of Karma and Time

काल उवाच न हाहं नाप्ययं मृत्युर्नायं लुब्धक पन्नग: । किल्बिषी जन्तुमरणे न वयं हि प्रयोजका:,कालने कहा--व्याथ! न तो मैं, न यह मृत्यु और न यह सर्प ही इस जीवकी मृत्युमें अपराधी हैं। हमलोग किसीकी मृत्युमें प्रेरक या प्रयोजक भी नहीं हैं

kāla uvāca | na hāhaṃ nāpy ayaṃ mṛtyur nāyaṃ lubdhaka pannagaḥ | kilbiṣī jantu-maraṇe na vayaṃ hi prayojakāḥ ||

Die Zeit sprach: „Weder ich noch dieser Tod noch diese Schlange sind schuld, o Jäger, am Sterben dieses Wesens. Wir sind weder Anstifter noch Werkzeuge, die den Tod irgendjemandes verursachen. Die wahre Ursache liegt anderswo — in den eigenen Taten des Wesens und im Gesetz des Dharma, das ihre Früchte zur Reife bringt.“

कालःTime (personified)
कालः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootकाल
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
उवाचsaid
उवाच:
TypeVerb
Rootवच्
FormPerfect (Paroksha-bhuta), Third, Singular, Parasmaipada
not
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
अहम्I
अहम्:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootअस्मद्
Form—, Nominative, Singular
nor/not
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
अपिalso/even
अपि:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootअपि
अयम्this (one)
अयम्:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootइदम्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
मृत्युःDeath
मृत्युः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootमृत्यु
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
nor/not
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
अयम्this (one)
अयम्:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootइदम्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
लुब्धकO hunter
लुब्धक:
TypeNoun
Rootलुब्धक
FormMasculine, Vocative, Singular
पन्नगःsnake/serpent
पन्नगः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootपन्नग
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
किल्बिषीsinful/guilty
किल्बिषी:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootकिल्बिषिन्
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
जन्तु-मरणेin the death of a creature
जन्तु-मरणे:
Adhikarana
TypeNoun
Rootजन्तु-मरण
FormNeuter, Locative, Singular
not
:
TypeIndeclinable
Root
वयम्we
वयम्:
Karta
TypePronoun
Rootअस्मद्
Form—, Nominative, Plural
हिindeed/for
हि:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootहि
प्रयोजकाःinstigators/causers
प्रयोजकाः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootप्रयोजक
FormMasculine, Nominative, Plural

काल उवाच

K
Kāla (Time)
M
Mṛtyu (Death)
L
Lubdhaka (hunter)
P
Pannaga (serpent)

Educational Q&A

The verse teaches that Time (kāla), Death (mṛtyu), and apparent instruments (like a serpent or a hunter) are not morally culpable as independent causes of a being’s death; rather, outcomes unfold according to the deeper law of karma and the ripening of prior actions.

Time personified addresses a hunter and denies that he, Death, or the serpent should be regarded as the guilty party in the creature’s death, shifting the discussion from surface-level blame to the ethical-metaphysical framework of karmic causation.