Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 17, Shloka 9
Adhyaya 17 — The Birth of Atri’s Three Sons: Soma, Dattatreya, and Durvasa
दृष्ट्वात्रौ कुपितः सद्यो दग्धुकामः स हैहयम् ।
गर्भवासमहायास-दुःखामर्षसमन्वितः ॥
dṛṣṭvātrau kupitaḥ sadyo dagdhukāmaḥ sa haihayam |
garbhavāsamahāyāsa-duḥkhāmarṣasamanvitaḥ ||
उसे देखकर अत्रि का पुत्र तुरंत क्रुद्ध हो उठा और उस हैहय को भस्म करना चाहा। गर्भवास के महान कष्ट और पीड़ा से उत्पन्न रोष से वह भर गया।
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FAQs
Suffering can transmute into indignation; the verse warns that pain, when not integrated, becomes destructive impulse. In Purāṇic ethics, power must be tempered by restraint, otherwise it scorches rather than corrects.
Vaṃśānucarita, with a didactic exemplum about the dangerous efficacy of tapas and the peril of offending the holy.
‘Womb-dwelling hardship’ can symbolize the jīva’s confinement in prakṛti; the resulting ‘amarṣa’ mirrors the impulse to break limitation—either as liberation or as rage.