Shloka 3
Adhyaya 5 — Tvashta’s Wrath, the Birth of Vritra, and the Divine Descent as the Pandavas
ततः पुत्रं हतं श्रुत्वा त्वष्टा क्रुद्धः प्रजापतिः ।
अवलुञ्च्य जटामेकामिदं वचनमब्रवीत् ॥
tataḥ putraṃ hataṃ śrutvā tvaṣṭā kruddhaḥ prajāpatiḥ / avaluñcya jaṭām ekām idaṃ vacanam abravīt //
Da er vernahm, dass sein Sohn erschlagen worden war, geriet Tvaṣṭṛ—der Prajāpati—in Zorn. Er riss eine einzige Strähne aus seinem verfilzten Haar und sprach diese Worte.
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FAQs
The verse foregrounds how intense grief and anger can propel even a progenitor-deity toward decisive (often disruptive) action. Purāṇic ethics frequently treat krodha as a catalyst that must be governed; when unrestrained, it generates further chains of conflict and retribution.
Primarily within Vaṃśānucarita/vaṃśa-related narrative flow (accounts connected to divine lineages and consequential events). It is not a Sarga/Pratisarga cosmogenesis verse, nor a Manvantara enumeration, but part of the episodic history that Purāṇas use to explain later developments.
Plucking a lock of jaṭā symbolizes the conversion of inner tapas (ascetic potency) into outward, world-affecting resolve—speech backed by power. In many Purāṇic idioms, hair/jaṭā is a reservoir-sign of vrata and tapas; to tear it out marks a threshold-moment where emotion is transmuted into a potent utterance that shapes events.