Shloka 46
Adhyaya 2 — The Lineage of Garuda and the Birth of the Wise Birds: Kanka and Kandhara
तानि तत्र तथा भूमौ शमीको भगवान् मुनिः ।
दृष्ट्वा स विस्मयाविष्टः प्रोवाचानुगतान् द्विजान् ॥
tāni tatra tathā bhūmau śamīko bhagavān muniḥ / dṛṣṭvā sa vismayāviṣṭaḥ provācānugatān dvijān
Seeing those things lying there upon the ground in that very manner, the venerable sage Śamīka, filled with astonishment, spoke to the Brahmin men who had followed him.
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FAQs
The verse highlights the epistemic humility expected even of sages: extraordinary events are first met with attentive wonder (vismaya) and then examined through dialogue. It models a dhārmic method—observe carefully, then inquire/teach responsibly to those present.
This verse is primarily narrative framing (ākhyāna) rather than a direct pancalakṣaṇa element. Indirectly, it supports the Purāṇic teaching method that later conveys dharma and cosmological material, but it is not itself sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita.
Śamīka ‘seeing on the ground’ can be read symbolically as discernment applied to the manifest plane (bhūmi)—the teacher’s consciousness meets an anomalous sign in the world, and speech (provāca) becomes the bridge from perception to meaning. Wonder here marks the threshold where hidden causality is about to be disclosed through instruction.