Shloka 154
कर्णेन युधिष्ठिरानीकविदारणम् / Karṇa’s Breach of Yudhiṣṭhira’s Battle-Line
निपातात्तव शस्त्राणां शरीरे याभवद् रुजा | तया ते मानुषं कर्म व्यपोर्द भूगुनन्दन,गृहाणास्त्राणि दिव्यानि मत्सकाशाद् यथेप्सितम् । उन्होंने कहा--'भृगुनन्दन! दैत्योंके अस्त्र-शस्त्रोंके आघातसे तुम्हारे शरीरमें जो चोट पहुँची है, उससे तुम्हारा मानवोचित कर्म नष्ट हो गया (अब तुम देवताओंके ही समान हो गये); अतः मुझसे अपनी इच्छाके अनुसार दिव्यास्त्र ग्रहण करो”
nipātāt tava śastrāṇāṃ śarīre yābhavad rujā | tayā te mānuṣaṃ karma vyapod bhṛgunandana, gṛhāṇāstrāṇi divyāni matsakāśād yathepsitam ||
Maheśvara said: “Bhṛgu’s descendant, the wound that arose in your body from the impact of the Daityas’ weapons has, by its very effect, erased the limitations of merely human action for you—so you have become comparable to the gods. Therefore, receive from me, according to your wish, the divine missiles and weapons.”
महेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames suffering and trial—here, being struck by formidable foes—as a transformative threshold: the hero’s former ‘human’ limitation is said to be removed, making him fit to receive higher, divine instruments. Ethically, it presents divine weapons not as mere power but as a trust granted when one is deemed spiritually and existentially prepared.
Maheśvara addresses Bhṛgu’s descendant after he has been wounded by the Daityas’ weapons. Declaring that this ordeal has elevated him beyond ordinary human status, Maheśvara invites him to take whatever divine astras he desires directly from him.