Shloka 15
सगरोपाख्यानम् — कपिलकोपः, अंशुमतः विनयः, तथा भगीरथपरम्परा
Sagara Upākhyāna: Kapila’s Wrath, Aṃśumān’s Reverence, and the Bhāgīratha Line
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ṣaṣṭiḥ putrasahasrāṇi śūrāḥ paramadarpitāḥ | ekasyāṃ sambhaviṣyanti patnyāṃ naravarottama |
“O best of men among kings, from one of your wives will be born sixty thousand sons—heroes, exceedingly proud. Yet they will all perish together. But from your other wife will be born a single heroic son who will continue the lineage.”
लोगश उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse warns that sheer numbers and martial prowess, when joined with excessive pride (darpa), tend toward collective downfall, whereas a single worthy heir can preserve a dynasty through steadier virtue and resilience.
A speaker delivers a prophetic pronouncement to a king: one wife will bear an enormous host of proud warrior sons destined to be destroyed together, while the other wife will bear one heroic son who will carry forward the family line.