Shloka 106
निमज्जिष्यति यं दृष्टवा सो<स्य मृत्युर्भविष्यति । तब पुनः उसी अदृश्य भूतने यह उत्तर दिया--'जिसके द्वारा गोदमें लिये जानेपर पाँच सिरवाले दो सर्पोकी भाँति इसकी पाँचों अँगुलियोंसे युक्त दो अधिक भुजाएँ पृथ्वीपर गिर जायँगी और जिसे देखकर इस बालकका ललाटवर्ती तीसरा नेत्र भी ललाटमें लीन हो जायगा, वही इसकी मृत्युमें निमित्त बनेगा”
nimajjiṣyati yaṁ dṛṣṭvā so ’sya mṛtyur bhaviṣyati |
Bhīṣma said: “On seeing the one destined to sink (into ruin), he will become the cause of this child’s death.” Then that unseen being replied further: “He by whom—when taken into the lap—this child’s two extra arms, each furnished with five fingers like two five-hooded serpents, will fall to the earth, and on seeing whom the child’s third eye upon the forehead will also withdraw and merge back into the forehead—he alone will become the occasion of his death.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage emphasizes the inevitability of destiny as indicated through omens: extraordinary bodily signs are portrayed as temporary and are removed when the destined agent appears, underscoring that death and downfall arise through a specific causal ‘nimitta’ aligned with fate and prior karma.
Bhīṣma reports a prophetic statement: an unseen being explains that the child’s abnormal features—two extra arms and a third eye—will disappear when a particular person takes him into the lap and is seen by him; that same person will later become the instrumental cause of the child’s death.