Shloka 8
Adhyāya 59: On Giving to the Asker and Supporting the Non-asking (याचक-अयाचक-दाने धर्मः)
क्षत्रियाणामभावाय दैवयुक्तेन हेतुना । सतुतंप्रतिगृहौव पुत्रे संक्रामयिष्यति,वे क्षत्रियोंका संहार करनेके लिये दैववश उस थधरनुर्वेदको ग्रहण करके तपस्यासे शुद्ध अन्तःकरणवाले अपने पुत्र महाभाग जमदग्निको उसकी शिक्षा देंगे। भृगुश्रेष्ठ जमदग्नि उस धनुर्वेदको धारण करेंगे
kṣatriyāṇām abhāvāya daivayuktena hetunā | sa tu taṃ pratigṛhya uva putre saṅkrāmayiṣyati | ye kṣatriyāṇāṃ saṃhāraṃ kartum daivavaśāt taṃ dhanurvedaṃ gṛhītvā tapasyā-śuddhāntaḥkaraṇo ’sya putre mahābhāge jamadagnau tasya śikṣāṃ dāsyati | bhṛguśreṣṭho jamadagniḥ taṃ dhanurvedaṃ dhārayiṣyati |
Vyavavana said: “For the extinction of the Kṣatriyas, by a cause joined with destiny, he will accept that science of archery and transmit it to his son. With an inner being purified by austerity, he will, under the compulsion of fate, teach that Dhanurveda to his illustrious son Jamadagni. Jamadagni, the foremost of the Bhṛgus, will then bear and preserve that knowledge.”
व्यववन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames the transfer of martial knowledge (Dhanurveda) within a moral universe where destiny (daiva) and human agency interact: even powerful skills are transmitted as part of a larger, fated unfolding, and the worthiness of the recipient is marked by inner purification through tapas.
A speaker predicts that, for a divinely driven purpose—specifically the eventual destruction of the Kṣatriyas—someone will receive the Dhanurveda and pass it to his son Jamadagni, who, as a foremost Bhṛgu sage, will preserve and embody that martial knowledge.