Shloka 28

Devanagari script

संतुष्टमवृणोद्‌ देवं वापी भवतु नः पुरे,तप उग्र॑ समास्थाय नियमे परमे स्थिता: । उस समय देवताओंने दैत्योंको परास्त कर दिया था, यह हमारे सुननेमें आया है। राजन! दैत्योंके परास्त हो जानेपर तारकासुरके तीन पुत्र ताराक्ष, कमलाक्ष और विद्युन्माली उग्र तपस्याका आश्रय ले उत्तम नियमोंका पालन करने लगे

Transliteration

santuṣṭam avṛṇod devaṃ vāpi bhavatu naḥ pure, tapa ugraṃ samāsthāya niyame parame sthitāḥ |

Translation

Duryodhana dit : «Satisfait, il choisit la divinité : “Qu’il y ait un puits dans notre cité.” Nous avons entendu qu’en ce temps-là les dieux vainquirent les Daityas. Ô roi, lorsque les Daityas furent vaincus, les trois fils de Tārakāsura—Tārakākṣa, Kamalākṣa et Vidyunmālī—se réfugièrent dans de farouches austérités et demeurèrent fermes dans les plus hautes disciplines de la maîtrise.»

Word by Word

• {'santuṣṭa': 'satisfied, pleased', 'avṛṇot (√vṛ)': 'chose, selected, requested', 'deva': 'a god

• deity', 'vāpi': 'well

• water-tank', 'bhavatu': 'let it be

• may it become', 'naḥ': 'for us

• our', 'pure': 'in the city', 'tapas': 'austerity

• disciplined effort', 'ugra': 'fierce

• intense', 'samāsthāya': 'having undertaken

• having resorted to', 'niyama': 'observance

• religious discipline', 'parama': 'supreme

• highest', 'sthitāḥ': 'standing firm

• steadfast', 'devāḥ': 'the gods', 'daityāḥ': 'Daityas

• a class of anti-gods/demons', 'parājita': 'defeated, overcome', 'śruta': 'heard

• known by report', 'putrāḥ': 'sons', 'tārakāsura': 'Tārakāsura (a demon figure)', 'tārakākṣa': 'Tārakākṣa (name of a demon)', 'kamalākṣa': 'Kamalākṣa (name of a demon)', 'vidyunmālī': 'Vidyunmālī (name of a demon)'}

Speaker

दुर्योधन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Duryodhana
• Devas (gods)
• Daityas
• Tārakāsura
• Tārakākṣa
• Kamalākṣa
• Vidyunmālī
• vāpi (well/reservoir)
• pura (city)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The passage highlights how intense discipline (tapas) and strict observances (niyama) can generate formidable power and influence outcomes, even for adversarial beings; it also implies an ethical warning that power gained through austerity is morally neutral and depends on the wielder’s intent.

What is happening in the narrative?

Duryodhana cites an earlier mythic report: after the gods defeated the Daityas, Tārakāsura’s three sons undertook fierce austerities and maintained supreme restraints, setting the stage for later boons or extraordinary capabilities that affect cosmic and political conflict.