Shloka 17

Devanagari script

दुःखाच्चाश्रूणि मुमुचे पितरं चेदमब्रवीत्‌ । श्र॒ुत्वेमां धर्षणां तात तव तेन दुरात्मना,वह दुःखसे आँसू बहाने लगा। उसने पितासे कहा--“'तात! उस दुरात्मा राजा परीक्षितके द्वारा आपके इस अपमानकी बात सुनकर मैंने उसे क्रोधपूर्वक जैसा शाप दिया है, वह कुरुकुलाधम वैसे ही भयंकर शापके योग्य है। आजके सातवें दिन नागराज तक्षक उस पापीको अत्यन्त भयंकर यमलोकमें पहुँचा देगा।” ब्रह्मन्‌! इस प्रकार क्रोधमें भरे हुए पुत्रसे उसके पिता शमीकने कहा

Transliteration

duḥkhāc cāśrūṇi mumuce pitaraṃ cedam abravīt | śrutvemāṃ dharṣaṇāṃ tāta tava tena durātmanā ||

Translation

Overcome with grief, he burst into tears and said to his father: “Father, having heard of the outrage done to you by that wicked man, I have, in anger, pronounced a curse upon him.”

Word by Word

दुःखात्from sorrow

चand

अश्रूणिtears

मुमुचेreleased / shed

पितरम्father

चand

इदम्this

अब्रवीत्said

Speaker

कृश उवाच

Characters & Entities

Kṛśa (speaker, as given)

Śamīka (father, in the surrounding narrative)

Parīkṣit (king, in the surrounding narrative)

Takṣaka (Nāgarāja, in the surrounding narrative)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how grief and wounded honor can quickly turn into anger and rash speech; it implicitly warns that actions taken in emotional agitation—especially curses or punishments—carry heavy moral and practical consequences.

What is happening in the narrative?

The speaker, distressed by the insult done to his father, weeps and tells him that, after hearing of the outrage, he has angrily uttered a curse against the offender—setting in motion the later consequence involving Takṣaka and King Parīkṣit.