Shloka 363

Devanagari script

घोरैव्याधिशतैर्याति घोररूपवपुस्तथा । मृत्युस॒हित यमराज अत्यन्त भयंकर रूप धारण करके देवताओंके साथ यात्रा कर रहे थे। उन्हें सैकड़ों भयानक रोगोंने मूर्तिमानू होकर चारों ओरसे घेर रखा था

Transliteration

ghorair vyādhiśatair yāti ghorarūpavapus tathā | mṛtyusahitaḥ yamarājaḥ atyanta-bhayaṅkara-rūpaṃ dhārayitvā devatābhiḥ saha yātrāṃ kurvan āsīt | taṃ ca śataśo ghorā vyādhayaḥ mūrtimatya iva sarvataḥ parivārya tiṣṭhanti sma |

Translation

Mārkaṇḍeya berkata: Yamarāja, bersama Maut itu sendiri, bergerak maju dengan wujud yang amat mengerikan. Ia menempuh perjalanan dalam rombongan para dewa, sementara ratusan penyakit yang ngeri—seakan menjelma bertubuh—mengepungnya dari segala arah.

Word by Word

घोरैःby/with terrible (ones)

व्याधि-शतैःby hundreds of diseases

यातिgoes / proceeds

घोर-रूप-वपुःa body of dreadful form

तथाthus / likewise

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mārkaṇḍeya

Yamarāja (Yama)

Mṛtyu (Death)

Devatāḥ (the gods)

Vyādhayaḥ (diseases, personified)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The passage evokes the inevitability of death and suffering under the governance of dharma: Yama, as the upholder of moral law, is accompanied by Death and surrounded by embodied diseases, reminding listeners that actions have consequences and that mortal life is bounded by decay.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mārkaṇḍeya describes a fearsome procession: Yamarāja travels with Death and the gods, while hundreds of dreadful diseases appear as if embodied and encircle him, intensifying the atmosphere of cosmic judgment and the inescapability of mortality.