Shloka 41
सुवर्णष्ठीविनोपाख्यानम्
The Account of Suvarṇaṣṭhīvin
पृथ्वीनाथ! यदुवीर श्रीकृष्णने जो बातें तुम्हारे सामने कही हैं, उन्हींको मैंने उस शोकाकुल राजाको सुनाया ।।
sañjīvitaś cāpi punar vāsavānumate tadā | bhavitavyaṃ tathā tac ca na tac chakyam ato 'nyathā ||
“O lord of the earth, the very words that the Yadu hero Śrī Kṛṣṇa spoke before you, I repeated to that king who was overcome by grief. And then, with Vāsava (Indra)’s consent, the child too was restored to life. Yet what was destined to happen did indeed happen in that very way; therefore it could not be made otherwise.”
पर्वत उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even when extraordinary help—such as divine consent—brings a reversal like revival, the Mahābhārata emphasizes that the larger inevitability (bhavitavya) still unfolds; one should perform dharma and accept that not everything can be altered by will.
The speaker reports that, with Indra’s approval, a child was brought back to life; nevertheless, the verse concludes that what was destined happened as destined, and it was not possible to make events turn out otherwise.