Shloka 123
कृतयुगवर्णनम् तथा राजधर्मोपदेशः
Kṛtayuga Description and Instruction on Royal Dharma
अन्तःशरीरे तस्याहं वर्षाणामधिकं शतम् । न च पश्यामि तस्याहं देहस्यान्तं कदाचन,उस बालकके शरीरके भीतर मैं सौ वर्षमे अधिक कालतक घूमता रहा, तो भी कभी उसके शरीरका अन्त नहीं दिखायी दिया
antaḥśarīre tasyāhaṁ varṣāṇām adhikaṁ śatam | na ca paśyāmi tasyāhaṁ dehasyāntaṁ kadācana ||
Vaiśampāyana said: “Within that child’s body I wandered for more than a hundred years; yet at no time did I behold the end or limit of his body.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse conveys the idea of immeasurable vastness hidden within what appears small: the ‘child’ embodies an infinite or unbounded reality, and human perception cannot easily find its limits. It cultivates humility and awe before the mysterious, possibly divine, nature of existence.
The narrator-speaker, Vaiśampāyana, reports an extraordinary experience: he claims to have moved within a child’s body for over a hundred years without reaching any boundary, emphasizing the miraculous, limitless interior of that being.