Shloka 8

बदरपाचन-तीर्थमाहात्म्यम् | Badarapācana Tīrtha Māhātmya

Indratīrtha and the Austerities of Srucāvatī & Arundhatī

Devanagari script

समुद्रोडयं तव वशे भविष्यति नदीपति: । सोमेन सार्थ च तव हानिवृद्धी भविष्यत:

Transliteration

samudroḍayaṁ tava vaśe bhaviṣyati nadīpatiḥ | somena sārtha ca tava hānivṛddhī bhaviṣyataḥ ||

Translation

Vaiśampāyana sprach: „Der Ozean, der Herr der Flüsse, wird mit seinen Gezeiten unter deine Gewalt kommen. Und zusammen mit Soma (dem Mond) werden auch deine Zustände von Verlust und Zuwachs—Niedergang und Gedeihen—in deiner Macht liegen.“

Word by Word

समुद्रःthe ocean

उदयम्rise, rising

तवof you, your

वशेin (your) control, under sway

भविष्यतिwill be, will become

नदीपतिःlord of rivers (ocean)

सोमेनwith Soma / by Soma

सार्थम्together, along with

चand

तवof you, your

हानि-वृद्धीloss and increase

भविष्यतःwill be (the two will be)

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Samudra (Ocean)

Soma (Moon)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames sovereignty as mastery over fluctuation: even forces that naturally wax and wane—tides and the Moon’s cycles, symbolic of gain and loss—are presented as subject to disciplined control, implying steadiness amid changing fortune.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana reports a prophetic assurance or blessing addressed to a person of power: the ocean’s tides and the alternating conditions of prosperity and decline (linked with Soma’s waxing and waning) are declared to be under that person’s command.