Shloka 5
आदि पर्व, अध्याय 67 — गान्धर्वविवाह-समयः
Duḥṣanta–Śakuntalā: Gandharva Marriage and Succession Condition
दिते: पुत्रस्तु यो राजन् हिरण्यकशिपु: स्मृतः । स जज्ञे मानुषे लोके शिशुपालो नरर्षभ:
diteḥ putras tu yo rājan hiraṇyakaśipuḥ smṛtaḥ | sa jajñe mānuṣe loke śiśupālo nararṣabhaḥ ||
Vaiśampāyana dijo: «Oh rey, aquel a quien se recuerda como Hiraṇyakaśipu, hijo de Diti, renació en el mundo de los hombres como Śiśupāla, toro entre los mortales».
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores a Mahābhārata theme: moral and cosmic causality persists across births. Powerful beings reappear in new forms, and their dispositions and consequences follow them, situating human conflicts within a larger karmic and dharmic framework.
Vaiśampāyana is identifying correspondences between earlier Daitya figures and later human kings. Here he states that the Daitya Hiraṇyakaśipu, son of Diti, took birth in the human world as Śiśupāla.