Shloka 10
सौवीरान् प्रति यातां च बभ्रोरेष तपस्विन: । भार्यामभ्यहरन्मोहादकामां तामितो गताम्,“इतना ही नहीं, इसने तपस्वी बभ्रुकी पत्नीका, जो यहाँसे द्वारका जाते समय सौवीरदेश पहुँची थी और इसके प्रति जिसके मनमें तनिक भी अनुराग नहीं था, मोहवश अपहरण कर लिया
sauvīrān prati yātāṃ ca babhror eṣa tapassvinaḥ | bhāryām abhyaharan mohād akāṃāṃ tām ito gatām ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “Moreover, this man, deluded by infatuation, abducted the wife of the ascetic Babhru—though she felt no desire for him at all—when she was traveling from here toward Dvārakā and had reached the land of Sauvīra.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores that actions driven by moha (delusion) can lead to grave adharma—here, the forcible taking of an unwilling woman and the violation of an ascetic’s household, both treated as serious ethical transgressions.
Vaiśampāyana reports an additional wrongdoing: a man abducts the ascetic Babhru’s wife while she is traveling toward Dvārakā and has reached Sauvīra, despite her lack of any affection or consent.