Shloka 32
Adhyaya 74 — King Svarashtra, the Deer-Queen’s Curse, and the Rise of Tamasa Manu
इत्युक्तः कोपरक्ताक्षः स प्राह स्फुरिताधरः ।
नाहं मृगी त्वयेत्युक्तं मृगी मूढे भविष्यसि ॥
ity uktaḥ koparaktākṣaḥ sa prāha sphuritādharaḥ / nāhaṃ mṛgī tvayety uktaṃ mṛgī mūḍhe bhaviṣyasi //
So angesprochen, mit vor Zorn geröteten Augen und bebenden Lippen, sagte er: „Du sagtest: ‚Ich bin keine Hirschkuh‘ — darum, du Narr, sollst du zur Hirschkuh werden.“
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FAQs
The sage’s anger turns language into a weapon: he seizes on a statement and enforces it as fate. The caution is twofold—guard one’s speech, and more importantly, guard one’s wrath, for it can pervert judgment and dharma.
Not sarga/pratisarga/manvantara; it is a dharma-illustrative narrative embedded in the Purāṇic storytelling stream.
The ‘literalizing curse’ reflects how the psyche can be trapped by labels (nāma-rūpa): when consciousness identifies with a limiting description, it ‘becomes’ it experientially.