Shloka 12
यथा पुरस्तात् सविता दृश्यते शुक्रमुच्चरन् । यथा च पश्चान्निर्मुक्तो ध्रुवं पर्येति रश्मिवान्
yathā purastāt savitā dṛśyate śukram uccaran | yathā ca paścān nirmukto dhruvaṃ paryeti raśmivān ||
Vaiśaṃpāyana said: “Just as the Sun is seen in the east, rising and casting forth brilliant radiance, and just as, having moved onward, the radiant one steadily courses toward the west—so too does this matter proceed with unfailing, orderly certainty.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse uses the Sun’s regular course as an image of certainty and order: events unfold with a steady inevitability, suggesting an underlying cosmic law (ṛta) that frames human action and its consequences.
Vaiśaṃpāyana employs a natural simile—sunrise and the Sun’s onward movement—to underscore that the situation being described is proceeding in a fixed, predictable way, as part of the unfolding momentum toward the coming conflict.