Shloka 9
Sati's Death & Virabhadra — Sati’s Death and the Assault on Daksha’s Sacrifice: Virabhadra versus the Devas
चतुर्दशसु लोकेषु जन्तवो ये चराचराः निमन्त्रिताः क्रतौ सर्वे किं नासि त्वं निमन्त्रिता
caturdaśasu lokeṣu jantavo ye carācarāḥ nimantritāḥ kratau sarve kiṃ nāsi tvaṃ nimantritā
In den vierzehn Welten sind alle Wesen — bewegliche und unbewegliche — zum Opfer eingeladen worden. Warum bist du dann nicht eingeladen?
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FAQs
The verse highlights the dharmic expectation of fairness and non-exclusion in ritual and social honor: if a rite claims cosmic scope (‘fourteen worlds’), deliberate omission becomes a moral fault that can precipitate conflict.
Primarily Vamśānucarita / narrative-ethics within an itihāsa-like episode embedded in the puranic dialogue frame (not sarga/pratisarga; no cosmogenesis here).
‘Fourteen worlds’ universalizes the yajña, making exclusion symbolically equivalent to denying cosmic order (ṛta). The tension foreshadows how wounded honor and ritual politics can generate catastrophic outcomes.