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Shloka 8

Ādi-parva Adhyāya 97: Satyavatī’s appeal and Bhīṣma’s reaffirmation of satya

यदा ते भविता मन्युस्तदा शापादू विमोक्ष्यसे । “जब तुम्हें गंगापर क्रोध आ जायगा, तब तुम भी शापसे छूट जाओगे।” वैशम्पायन उवाच स चिन्तयित्वा नृपतिर्न॒पानन्यांस्तपोधनान्‌,वैशम्पायनजी कहते हैं--जनमेजय! तब राजा महाभिषने अन्य बहुत-से तपस्वी राजाओंका चिन्तन करके महातेजस्वी राजा प्रतीपको ही अपना पिता बनानेके योग्य चुना --उन्‍्हींको पसंद किया। महानदी गंगा राजा महाभिषको धैर्य खोते देख मन-ही-मन उन्हींका चिन्तन करती हुई लौटी। मार्गसे जाती हुई गंगाने वसुदेवताओंको देखा। उनका शरीर स्वर्गसे नीचे गिर रहा था। वे मोहाच्छन्न एवं मलिन दिखायी दे रहे थे। उन्हें इस रूपमें देखकर नदियोंमें श्रेष्ठ गंगाने पूछा--

vaiśampāyana uvāca | yadā te bhavitā manyus tadā śāpād vimokṣyase |

Vaiśampāyana said: “When anger arises in you, then you will be released from the curse.” The statement frames liberation not as a random event but as one tied to an inner moral turning-point: the moment righteous indignation awakens, the binding power of the curse ends.

यदाwhen
यदा:
Adhikarana
TypeIndeclinable
Rootयदा
तेof you/your
ते:
Sambandha
TypePronoun
Rootयुष्मद्
FormGenitive, Singular
भविताwill be/arise
भविता:
TypeVerb
Rootभू
FormPeriphrastic Future (लुट्), 3rd, Singular
मन्युःanger
मन्युः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootमन्यु
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
तदाthen
तदा:
Adhikarana
TypeIndeclinable
Rootतदा
शापात्from the curse
शापात्:
Apadana
TypeNoun
Rootशाप
FormMasculine, Ablative, Singular
विमोक्ष्यसेyou will be released
विमोक्ष्यसे:
TypeVerb
Rootवि+मुच्
FormFuture (लृट्), 2nd, Singular, Atmanepada

वैशम्पायन उवाच

V
Vaiśampāyana

Educational Q&A

Release from suffering or bondage (here, a curse) is shown as condition-bound: an inner state—anger understood as a decisive moral awakening—becomes the trigger for freedom. The verse links ethical psychology (manyu) with destiny (śāpa) in a cause-and-effect framework.

Vaiśampāyana reports a pronouncement that the subject of the curse will be freed precisely when anger arises in them. It functions as a foretold condition for the curse’s termination, setting up later narrative events where that anger becomes pivotal.