Shloka 86

धर्मस्य बहुद्वारत्वम् — Nārada’s Audience with Indra (Śānti-parva 340)

Devanagari script

त्रितोपघाताद वैरूप्यमेकतो<थ द्वितस्तथा । प्राप्स्येते वानरत्वं हि प्रजापतिसुतावृषी,त्रित नामक मुनिके साथ विश्वासघात करनेके कारण एकत और द्वित--ये दो प्रजापतिके पुत्र ऋषि विरूप वानरयोनिको प्राप्त होंगे

Transliteration

tritopaghātād vairūpyam ekato 'tha dvitastathā | prāpsyete vānaratvaṃ hi prajāpatisutāvṛṣī ||

Translation

Bhīṣma sprach: „Wegen ihres treulosen Angriffs auf den Weisen namens Trita werden die beiden aus Prajāpati geborenen Seher, Ekata und Dvita, Entstellung erleiden und wahrlich unter Affen geboren werden. So bringt der Verrat an Vertrauen eine angemessene sittliche Folge, die den Verräter mit Schande und Rangverlust zeichnet.“

Word by Word

त्रितोपघातात्from the injury/affront to Trita

वैindeed

वैरूप्यम्deformity, ugliness

एकतःon the one hand / in one way

अथand then

द्वितःon the other hand / in another way

तथाso, likewise

प्राप्स्येतेwill attain

वानरत्वम्monkeyhood, the state of being a monkey

हिfor, indeed

प्रजापतिसुतौthe two sons of Prajāpati

ऋषीtwo sages

Speaker

(भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhishma

Trita (sage)

Ekata

Dvita

Prajapati

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Betrayal and harmful deceit toward a trusting person—especially a sage—produces inevitable karmic retribution: loss of honor, distortion of one’s rightful state, and a fall into a lower condition.

What is happening in the narrative?

Bhishma states that Ekata and Dvita, sons of Prajāpati, will suffer deformity and be born as monkeys because they wronged (betrayed and harmed) the sage Trita.