Shloka 67
आदि पर्व, अध्याय 67 — गान्धर्वविवाह-समयः
Duḥṣanta–Śakuntalā: Gandharva Marriage and Succession Condition
कालनेमिरिति ख्यातो दानवानां महाबल: । स कंस इति विख्यात उग्रसेनसुतो बली
kālanemir iti khyāto dānavānāṁ mahābalaḥ | sa kaṁsa iti vikhyāta ugrasenāsuto balī ||
Waiśampāyana berkata: Dānava yang perkasa, yang masyhur dengan nama Kālanemi, itulah yang terlahir kembali dan dikenal sebagai Kaṁsa, putra Raja Ugrasena yang sangat kuat.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse conveys a moral-cosmic idea central to the epic: adharma is not merely a single event but a recurring force that can re-emerge through rebirth, and the preservation of dharma involves recognizing and confronting such recurring patterns of destructive power.
In the Aṁśāvataraṇa (partial-incarnation) account, Vaiśampāyana identifies a continuity of beings across births: the Dānava Kālanemi is said to have become Kaṁsa, the powerful son of Ugrasena, thereby linking earlier asuric hostility to later historical events in the Yādava context.