Shloka 57

Sūrya-stava: Dhaumya’s Counsel and the Aṣṭaśata-nāma of Sūrya

Devanagari script

संहारकाले सम्प्राप्ते तव क्रोधविनि:सृत: । संवर्तकाग्निस्त्रैलोक्यं भस्मीकृत्यावतिष्ठते,प्रलयकाल आनेपर आपके ही क्रोधसे प्रकट हुई संवर्तक नामक अग्नि तीनों लोकोंको भस्म करके फिर आपमें ही स्थित हो जाती है

Transliteration

saṁhārakāle samprāpte tava krodha-viniḥsṛtaḥ | saṁvartakāgnis trailokyaṁ bhasmīkṛtyāvatiṣṭhate ||

Translation

Yudhiṣṭhira said: “When the time of dissolution arrives, the Saṁvartaka fire—issued forth from your very wrath—reduces the three worlds to ashes and then comes to rest again within you.”

Word by Word

संहारकालेat the time of destruction

सम्प्राप्तेwhen (it has) arrived

तवof you/your

क्रोधविनिःसृतःissued forth from (your) wrath

संवर्तकाग्निःthe Samvartaka fire

त्रैलोक्यम्the three worlds

भस्मीकृत्यhaving reduced to ashes

अवतिष्ठतेremains/abides

Speaker

युधिछिर उवाच

Characters & Entities

Yudhiṣṭhira

Saṁvartaka fire

Trailokya (three worlds)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the immense, world-ending potency attributed to divine wrath, implying an ethical warning: anger is not a trivial emotion but a force that can destroy order; therefore it must be governed and restrained.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yudhiṣṭhira addresses a powerful being, describing how at the time of cosmic dissolution a fire called Saṁvartaka emerges from that being’s anger, burns the three worlds, and then subsides back into the same source.