Shloka 3
Adhyāya 62: Sañjaya’s Admonition to Dhṛtarāṣṭra on Rāja-dharma and Consequence
धूमं दृष्टवागमत् सत्र पृषदाज्यमवाप स: | त॑ दृष्टवा युवनाश्वस्य जठरे सूनुतां गतम्
dhūmaṃ dṛṣṭvāgamat satra pṛṣadājyamavāpa saḥ | taṃ dṛṣṭvā yuvanāśvasya jaṭhare sūnutāṃ gatam ||
Nārada said: “Seeing the smoke, he came to that sacrificial session and obtained the oblation of ghee. Then, beholding that (oblation) lodged in Yuvanāśva’s belly, it came to assume the state of offspring.”
नारद उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how ritual acts (yajña and its oblations) are portrayed as potent forces that can shape destiny and lineage. It also implies an ethical caution: sacred substances and rites, when handled without due awareness, may lead to unforeseen consequences—yet those consequences are still framed within a larger dharmic order.
Nārada narrates that someone, noticing the smoke of a sacrifice, arrives at the sacrificial session and receives a ghee oblation. That oblation is then described as entering (or being present in) King Yuvanāśva’s belly and becoming the cause of offspring—setting up a miraculous conception/birth motif.