Shloka 31
Atithi’s Direction to the Nāga-sage Padma at Naimiṣa (अतिथ्युपदेशः—नैमिषे पद्मनागोपाख्यानप्रस्तावः)
हैरण्यगर्भाच्च वसिष्ठाद्धिरण्यकशिपु: शापं प्राप्तवान् यस्मात् त्वयान्यो वृतो होता तस्मादसमाप्त-यज्ञस्त्वमपूर्वात् सत्त्वजातादू वर्धं प्राप्स्यसीति तच्छापदानाद्धिरण्यकशिपु: प्राप्तवान् वधम्
hairaṇyagarbhācca vasiṣṭāddhiraṇyakaśipuḥ śāpaṃ prāptavān yasmāt tvayānyo vṛto hotā tasmādasamāpta-yajñas tvam apūrvāt sattvajātād ūrdhvaṃ prāpsyasīti tacchāpadānāddhiraṇyakaśipuḥ prāptavān vadham
Arjuna sprach: Hiraṇyakaśipu zog sich den Fluch Vasiṣṭhas zu, des Sohnes Brahmās (Hiraṇyagarbha), weil er Vasiṣṭha missachtete und einen anderen Priester als hotṛ erwählte. Darum verkündete Vasiṣṭha: „Da du einen anderen hotṛ gewählt hast, wirst du, ehe dieses Opfer vollendet ist, den Tod durch die Hand eines beispiellosen Wesens finden.“ Durch die Macht dieses Fluches gelangte Hiraṇyakaśipu zu seiner vorherbestimmten Erschlagung.
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Disrespect toward a rightful spiritual authority and disruption of dharmic ritual order (yajña) generate consequences that return with certainty; moral-ritual transgression ripens into fate.
Arjuna recounts that Hiraṇyakaśipu, after choosing another hotṛ and slighting Vasiṣṭha, receives a curse that he will be killed before the sacrifice ends by an unprecedented being; the curse becomes the cause of his eventual death.