Shloka 226
Kṛṣṇasya Dvārakā-praveśaḥ — Krishna’s Return to Dvārakā and the Raivataka Festival
यस्मिंस्ते कुण्डले बद्धे तदा द्विजवरेण वै । उस समय उनकी दृष्टि बेलोंपर ही लगी हुई थी (वे कहाँ गिरते हैं
yasmiṁs te kuṇḍale baddhe tadā dvijavareṇa vai |
Vaiśaṃpāyana sprach: „Damals hatte der vortreffliche Brahmane jene beiden Ohrringe an eine Hirschhaut gebunden. Sein Blick war nur auf die Ranken gerichtet; er achtete nicht darauf, wohin die abgeschnittenen Schlingpflanzen fielen. So fiel fast alles, was er abtrennte, auf eben jene Hirschhaut, an der die beiden Ohrringe festgebunden waren.“
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage highlights how fixation on a single task can lead to negligence about consequences; even in simple actions, heedfulness (apramāda) matters, especially when valuable objects are involved.
An eminent brahmin has tied two earrings onto a deerskin. While cutting creepers, the person(s) involved keep watching only the vines, not where they fall, and the cut vines mostly land on the same deerskin where the earrings are secured.