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Shloka 6

Aṣṭāvakra’s Visit to Kubera: Hospitality, Temptation, and the Ethics of Restraint (अष्टावक्र-वैश्रवणोपाख्यानम्)

Devanagari script

मया गोकर्णमासाद्य तपस्तप्त्वा शतं समा: | अयोनिजानां दान्तानां धर्मज्ञानां सुवर्चसाम्‌

Transliteration

mayā gokarṇam āsādya tapas taptvā śataṃ samāḥ | ayonijānāṃ dāntānāṃ dharmajñānāṃ suvarcasām ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „Nachdem ich Gokarṇa erreicht hatte, übte ich volle hundert Jahre lang Askese. Als Frucht kamen zu mir hundert Söhne — aus keinem Schoß geboren, selbstbeherrscht, kundig im Dharma und strahlend — ein Zeichen des Ertrags beständigen Tapas und göttlicher Gunst, die auf das Rechte zielt.“

Word by Word

मयाby me

गोकर्णम्Gokarṇa (place/holy spot)

आसाद्यhaving reached

तपःausterity, penance

तप्त्वाhaving performed (austerity)

शतम्a hundred

समाःyears

अयोनिजानाम्of those not born from a womb (spontaneously born)

दान्तानाम्of the self-controlled

धर्मज्ञानाम्of the knowers of dharma

सुवर्चसाम्of the very radiant/glorious

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Gokarṇa

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Long, disciplined tapas undertaken at a sacred place, when aligned with dharma and self-restraint, is portrayed as generating powerful and auspicious results—here symbolized by radiant, dharma-knowing offspring.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana recounts that he went to the tīrtha of Gokarṇa and performed austerities for one hundred years, after which he obtained (or was blessed with) a hundred extraordinary sons characterized as ayonija, self-controlled, and knowledgeable in dharma.