Vamana Purana — Jabali on the Banyan Tree, Shloka 50
Jabali Bound on the Banyan Tree and Nandayanti’s Appeal at Sri-Kantha on the Yamuna
तस्मान्मामपि सुश्रोणि त्वं परित्रातुमर्हसि अरजस्काब्रवीद् दण्डं तस्या यद् वृत्तमुत्तरम्
tasmānmāmapi suśroṇi tvaṃ paritrātumarhasi arajaskābravīd daṇḍaṃ tasyā yad vṛttamuttaram
Therefore you too, O fair-hipped one, ought to protect me. Arajaskā spoke to Daṇḍa and related what further happened in her case.
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FAQs
The accusative “daṇḍam” with “abravīt” commonly marks the addressee, so it can be a named person (e.g., an official, judge, minister) or a personification of royal punishment/justice. Without the surrounding verses, both readings remain possible; Purāṇic narrative often plays on the double sense of daṇḍa as both ‘rod/punishment’ and ‘authority.’
It signals a shift to testimony/reporting: Arajaskā becomes the conveyor of the ‘uttara-vṛtta’ (subsequent events). This is a common Purāṇic technique to move from private appeal to public adjudication or explanation.
Not in these three ślokas. They are internally focused on interpersonal events and the mechanism of protection/justice; no rivers, forests, lakes, or tīrthas are named in the provided text.