Shloka 64
Śama-prāptiḥ — Gautamī–Lubdhaka–Pannaga–Mṛtyu–Kāla-saṃvāda
Restraint through the Analysis of Karma and Time
धिड़मृत्युं च दुरात्मानं क्रूरं दु:खकरं सताम् | त्वां चैवाहं वधिष्यामि पापं पापस्य कारणम्,श्रेष्ठ पुरुषोंको दुःख देनेवाले इस क्रूर एवं दुरात्मा मृत्युको धिक््कार है और तू तो इस पापका कारण है ही; इसलिये तुझ पापात्माका वध मैं अवश्य करूँगा
dhiṅ mṛtyuṁ ca durātmānaṁ krūraṁ duḥkhakaraṁ satām | tvāṁ caivāhaṁ vadhiṣyāmi pāpaṁ pāpasya kāraṇam ||
“Shame upon Death—cruel, wicked-souled, and a bringer of sorrow to the noble. And you too are the very cause of this sin; therefore I will surely kill you, O sinful one.”
लुब्धक उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse dramatizes moral outrage at suffering inflicted upon the virtuous: cruelty and the forces that occasion wrongdoing are condemned, and the speaker frames his intended violence as retribution against a perceived source of sin—raising the ethical tension between righteous indignation and retaliatory harm.
The hunter (लुब्धक) denounces Death as cruel and harmful to the good, then turns to address another party as the cause of the sinful situation and vows to kill that ‘sinful one,’ expressing a resolve for violent reprisal.