Shloka 31
Adhyaya 62 — The Fire-God Enters the Brahmin Youth; Varuthini’s Love-Sickness and Kali’s Disguise
वरूथिन्युवाच
एवं भवतु भद्रन्ते यथेच्छसि तथास्तु तत् ।
मया सर्वप्रकारं हि वशे स्थेयं तवाधुना ॥
varūthiny uvāca evaṃ bhavatu bhadrante yathecchasi tathāstu tat / mayā sarva-prakāraṃ hi vaśe stheyaṃ tavādhunā
Varūthinī dit : «Qu’il en soit ainsi, ô noble ; comme tu le désires, qu’il en soit ainsi. En toute manière, en vérité, désormais je demeurerai sous ton contrôle.»
FAQs
Purāṇic narratives often stress that major life outcomes (especially lineage) follow from explicit choices; here the assent to a condition becomes the hinge on which the subsequent birth-story turns.
Manvantara context, feeding into Vaṃśānucarita (life-history of the forthcoming child and his naming), since these verses set up the conception.
Submission ‘to another’s will’ can be read symbolically as the psyche yielding to a dominant saṃskāra; the story then externalizes the inner consequence as an embodied birth.