Shloka 13

Devanagari script

पितरं स समुत्सृज्य पितामहमुपस्थित: । तस्य कोपात्‌ पिता राजन्‌ ससर्जात्मानमात्मना,राजन! वैश्रवण अपने पिताको छोड़कर पितामहकी सेवामें रहने लगे। इससे उनपर क्रोध करके पिता पुलस्त्यने स्वयं अपने-आपको ही दूसरे रूपमें प्रकट कर लिया। पुलस्त्यके आधे शरीरसे जो दूसरा द्विज प्रकट हुआ, उसका नाम विश्रवा था। विश्रवा वैश्रवणसे बदला लेनेके लिये उनके ऊपर सदा कुपित रहा करते थे

Transliteration

pitaraṁ sa samutsṛjya pitāmaham upasthitaḥ | tasya kopāt pitā rājan sasarjātmānam ātmanā |

Translation

Mārkaṇḍeya said: “Abandoning his father, Vaiśravaṇa devoted himself to serving his grandfather. Because of this, his father—angered, O king—brought forth another manifestation of himself by his own power.”

Word by Word

पितरम्father

सःhe

समुत्सृज्यhaving abandoned/left

पितामहम्grandfather

उपस्थितःhaving approached / standing by (in attendance)

तस्यof him / his

कोपात्from anger / out of wrath

पिताthe father

राजन्O king

ससर्जcreated / emitted / produced

आत्मानम्himself

आत्मनाby himself / with his own self

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mārkaṇḍeya

rājan (the king, i.e., Yudhiṣṭhira as listener)

father (pitar)

grandfather (pitāmaha)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Service to elders is virtuous, but dharma requires proper prioritization of duties; neglecting one’s immediate obligations can generate anger, rupture family harmony, and set in motion enduring consequences within a lineage.

What is happening in the narrative?

A figure leaves his father and remains in attendance upon his grandfather. The father, angered by this abandonment, uses his own power to produce another manifestation of himself—an act that signals escalating familial conflict and the birth of a new agent in the story’s causal chain.