Shloka 33

पञ्चवर्णोत्पत्तिः — The Origin of the Five-Colored Fiery Being and Ritual-Disruptor Lineages

Devanagari script

जातिमृत्युजरादु:खै: सततं समभिद्रुत: । संसारे पच्यमानश्न दोषैरात्मकृतैर्नर:,मनुष्य अपने ही किये हुए अपराधोंके कारण जन्म-मृत्यु और जरासम्बन्धी दु:खोंसे सदा पीडित हो बारंबार संसारमें पचता रहता है

Transliteration

jāti-mṛtyu-jarā-duḥkhaiḥ satataṃ samabhidrutaḥ | saṃsāre pacyamānaś ca doṣair ātma-kṛtair naraḥ ||

Translation

Dijo el cazador: «El hombre, continuamente asediado por los sufrimientos del nacimiento, la muerte y la vejez, es abrasado una y otra vez en el ciclo del saṃsāra, atormentado por las mismas faltas y culpas que él mismo ha cometido.»

Word by Word

जाति-मृत्यु-जरा-दुःखैःby the sufferings of birth, death, and old age

सततम्always, continually

समभिद्रुतःafflicted, hard-pressed

संसारेin the world/cycle of existence

पच्यमानःbeing cooked/tormented (suffering)

दोषैःby faults, by sins

आत्मकृतैःdone by oneself, self-committed

नरःa man

Speaker

व्याध उवाच

Characters & Entities

vyādha (the hunter, speaker)

nara (a human being, generic)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Human suffering in saṃsāra—especially the inevitable pains of birth, death, and old age—is intensified and perpetuated by one’s own self-made faults; therefore ethical self-discipline and responsibility for one’s actions are essential.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Vyādha’s discourse, he instructs the listener by pointing to the human condition: people are repeatedly afflicted in worldly life, not merely by fate, but by the consequences of their own wrongdoing.