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

Dijo Yudhiṣṭhira: «Cuando llega el tiempo de la disolución, el fuego Saṁvartaka—surgido de tu propia ira—reduce a cenizas los tres mundos y luego vuelve a reposar en ti».

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

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.