Shloka 27
Kṛṣṇasya Dvārakā-praveśaḥ — Krishna’s Return to Dvārakā and the Raivataka Festival
पपात वृक्षात् सोद्वेगो दुः:खात् परमकोपन: । स दण्डकाष्ठमादाय वल्मीकमखनत् तदा,सर्पके द्वारा कुण्डलोंका अपहरण होता देख उत्तंक मुनि उद्विग्न हो उठे और अत्यन्त क्रोधमें भरकर वृक्षसे कूद पड़े। आकर एक काठका डंडा हाथमें ले उसीसे उस बाँबीको खोदने लगे
vaiśampāyana uvāca | papāta vṛkṣāt sodvego duḥkhāt paramakopanaḥ | sa daṇḍakāṣṭham ādāya valmīkam akhanat tadā ||
Vaiśampāyana said: Distressed and agitated by grief, and inflamed with extreme anger, he leapt down from the tree. Taking a wooden staff in his hand, he then began to dig up the anthill. The scene underscores how a perceived violation—the theft of the earrings—provokes a surge of righteous indignation, yet also shows the peril of anger driving immediate, forceful action.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how grief and anger can rapidly propel one into impulsive action. In a dharmic frame, righteous concern for justice must be balanced with self-control, because uncontrolled wrath can distort judgment even when the cause appears legitimate.
The speaker describes a man (contextually, Uttanka) who, upon becoming agitated and furious, jumps down from a tree and takes up a wooden staff to dig into an anthill—an urgent physical response to what he has just witnessed (the theft of the earrings by a serpent, per the surrounding episode).