Shloka 17

Adhyaya 3 — The Dharmapakshis’ Past-Life Curse and Indra’s Test of Truthfulness

Sanskrit

तपश्चरणसक्तस्य शास्यमानेन्द्रियस्य च ।

यथाभिमतमस्माभिस्तदा तस्योपपादितम् ॥

Transliteration

tapaścaraṇasaktasya śāsyamānendriyasya ca / yathābhimatam asmābhis tadā tasyopapāditam

Translation

Para aquel que estaba entregado a la práctica de las austeridades y refrenaba sus sentidos, entonces hicimos que se cumpliera exactamente lo que deseaba.

Word by Word

• तपश्चरणसक्तस्य: of (him) devoted to austerity and practice
• तपश्चरणसक्तस्य: सम्बन्ध (Genitive qualifier of ‘तस्य’)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: तपस् + चरण + सक्त (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुल्लिङ्ग/नपुंसकलिङ्ग (contextual), षष्ठी, एकवचन — तत्पुरुषः: ‘तपसि चरणे च सक्तः’ = ‘attached to austerity and practice’

• शास्यमानइन्द्रियस्य: of (him) with controlled senses
• शास्यमानइन्द्रियस्य: सम्बन्ध (Genitive qualifier)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शास् (धातु) + यमान (कृदन्त) + इन्द्रिय (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: षष्ठी, एकवचन — तत्पुरुषः: ‘शास्यमानानि इन्द्रियाणि यस्य’ (or ‘शास्यमान-इन्द्रिय’) = ‘whose senses are being controlled’

• च: and
• च: समुच्चय (Connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयबोधक अव्यय (conjunction)

• यथा: as
• यथा: प्रकार (Manner)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा (अव्यय)
• Form: प्रकारवाचक अव्यय (adverb: as/according to)

• अभिमतम्: what was desired
• अभिमतम्: कर्म (Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अभिमत (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया, एकवचन — ‘desired/approved (thing)’

• अस्माभिः: by us
• अस्माभिः: करण/कर्तृ (Agent/instrument)
• Type: Noun
• Root: अस्मद् (प्रातिपदिक, सर्वनाम)
• Form: तृतीया, बहुवचन — instrumental ‘by us’

• तदा: then
• तदा: कालाधिकरण (Temporal adverb)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा (अव्यय)
• Form: कालवाचक अव्यय (then)

• तस्य: for him
• तस्य: सम्प्रदान/सम्बन्ध (Recipient relation)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तद् (प्रातिपदिक, सर्वनाम)
• Form: पुल्लिङ्ग, षष्ठी, एकवचन — ‘for him/of him’ (here: for him, genitive relation)

• उपपादितम्: was provided
• उपपादितम्: क्रिया (Predicate participle)
• Type: Verb
• Root: उप-√पद्/उप-√पाद् (धातु) + क्त (कृदन्त)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त; नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन — ‘was provided/was arranged’ (agreeing with implied ‘अभिमतम्’)

Speakers

• Unclear from provided excerpt alone (voice indicates a plural ‘we’; likely narratorial or a group of agents granting a result to an ascetic).

Verse Rasa

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Key Themes

• Tapas
• Indriya-nigraha (sense-control)
• Karmic fruition / attainment of desired result
• Ethics of discipline

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

The verse links inner discipline to attainment: sustained austerity coupled with restraint of the senses is presented as a qualifying cause for the fulfillment of one’s aim. The ethical emphasis is not on desire alone, but on the purification and steadiness (through tapas and indriya-nigraha) that makes the desired outcome ‘fit’ to be realized.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana (5 characteristics)?

This verse is not directly sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita in content; it functions more as didactic narrative texture. At most, it supports vaṃśānucarita-style storytelling (events in the lives of figures) rather than cosmological enumeration.

What is the esoteric significance?

Esoterically, ‘senses being governed’ suggests pratyāhāra-like withdrawal and mastery of the indriyas; the ‘granting’ of the desired object can be read as siddhi arising when the mind is no longer scattered by sensory compulsion. The plural ‘by us’ can symbolically indicate that aligned cosmic forces (daiva) cooperate when inner order is established.