Shloka 3
Adhyaya 4 — Jaimini Meets the Dharmapakshis: Four Doubts on the Mahabharata and the Opening of Narayana Doctrine
तन्नगासन्नभूतश्च शुश्राठ पठतां ध्वनिम् ।
श्रुत्वा च विस्मयाविष्टश्चिन्तयामास जैमिनिः ॥
tannagāsannabhūtaś ca śuśrāṭha paṭhatāṃ dhvanim | śrutvā ca vismayāviṣṭaś cintayāmāsa jaiminiḥ ||
Dann, als er sich jenem Berge näherte, vernahm er den Klang einer Rezitation. Als Jaimini ihn hörte, vom Staunen überwältigt, begann er nachzusinnen (was dies wohl sein möge).
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FAQs
The verse models a classical Purāṇic epistemic movement: śravaṇa (hearing) gives rise to vismaya (awe), which ripens into cintā (reflective inquiry). Wonder is not treated as distraction but as the doorway to seeking right knowledge and proper teachers.
This verse is primarily part of the frame narrative infrastructure rather than a direct instance of sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita. Indirectly, it functions as the narrative gateway that will lead into teachings and accounts that do include those pañcalakṣaṇa elements.
Symbolically, ‘approaching the mountain’ suggests nearing a stable axis of higher knowledge (a dharma-kendra), while the ‘sound of recitation’ indicates the living presence of sacred speech (śabda). Jaimini’s astonishment marks the threshold where ordinary perception yields to recognition of a subtler, dharmic intelligence operating in the world.