Shloka 3
अथ चिन्तां समापेदे पुन: कौरवनन्दन । अम्भस्यस्या निमज्जेयमिति दुःखसमन्वित:,कौरवनन्दन! (उसे देखकर) दुःखसे युक्त वसिष्ठजीके मनमें फिर यह विचार आया कि मैं इसी नदीके जलमें डूब जाऊँ
atha cintāṃ samāpede punaḥ kauravanandana | ambhasy asyā nimajjeyam iti duḥkhasamanvitaḥ ||
Then, O delight of the Kuru line, he again fell into anxious reflection. Overwhelmed by sorrow, he resolved: “I shall sink into the waters of this very river.” The verse highlights how grief can drive even the wise toward self-destructive impulses, setting the ethical tension between despair and steadfastness.
गन्धर्व उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse portrays how intense sorrow can cloud judgment and lead to thoughts of self-destruction; it implicitly invites reflection on dharma as steadiness and the need to resist despair-driven decisions.
The speaker describes a person—addressed in the telling to a Kuru prince—who, seeing the situation, becomes overwhelmed with grief and decides to drown himself in the river’s waters.