Shloka 19
न मे क्रुद्धस्य पर्याप्ता: सर्वे लोका: शुचिस्मिते । चक्षुषा यं प्रपश्यामि तस्य तेजो हराम्यहम्,मेरे कुपित होनेपर यह संसार मिट जायगा। मुझपर ही सब कुछ टिका हुआ है। शुचिस्मिते! यदि मैं क्रोधमें भर जाऊँ तो यह देवता, दानव, गन्धर्व, किन्नर, नाग, राक्षस और सम्पूर्ण लोक मेरा सामना नहीं कर सकते हैं। मैं अपनी आँखसे जिसको देख लेता हूँ, उसका तेज हर लेता हूँ
na me kruddhasya paryāptāḥ sarve lokāḥ śucismite | cakṣuṣā yaṁ prapaśyāmi tasya tejo harāmy aham ||
Nahusha said: “When I am enraged, all the worlds together are not sufficient to withstand me, O you of pure smile. Whomever I behold with my eyes, I strip away that person’s tejas, their radiance.”
नहुष उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse illustrates how unchecked anger and pride claim absolute authority—so extreme that the speaker imagines his wrath overpowering all worlds and draining others’ ‘tejas’. In dharmic ethics, such self-exalting rage is a warning sign: power without restraint becomes destructive and morally unstable.
Nahusha is speaking in a threatening, boastful tone, declaring that when he is angry no one can oppose him and that his very gaze can rob others of their radiance. The statement functions as intimidation and self-aggrandizement within the episode’s dialogue.