Shloka 13
Saṃsāra-Gahana Allegory: The Brāhmaṇa in the Forest and Well (संसारगहन-आख्यान)
अथ तत्रापि चान्यो5स्य भूयो जात उपद्रव:,षड्वकत्रं कृष्णशुक्लं च द्विषट्कपदचारिणम् | वहाँ भी उसके सामने पुनः दूसरा उपद्रव खड़ा हो गया। उसने कूपके भीतर एक महाबली महानाग बैठा हुआ देखा तथा कुएँके ऊपरी तटपर उसके मुखबन्धके पास एक विशाल हाथीको खड़ा देखा, जिनके छ: मुँह थे। वह सफेद और काले रंगका था तथा बारह पैरोंसे चला करता था
atha tatrāpi cānyo 'sya bhūyo jāta upadravaḥ | ṣaḍvaktraṃ kṛṣṇaśuklaṃ ca dviṣaṭkapadacāriṇam ||
Then, even there, another fresh calamity confronted him again: a strange being with six faces, black and white in color, moving on twelve feet. In Vidura’s moral narration, this image intensifies the sense of peril and instability that besets one who is trapped in worldly entanglement, where new dangers arise even when one thinks one has found a momentary refuge.
विदुर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse underscores how, within samsaric entanglement, dangers recur in new forms; ethical vigilance and discernment are needed because apparent pauses in suffering can quickly give way to fresh disturbances.
Vidura describes that, even in that situation, another danger arises: a peculiar six-faced, black-and-white, twelve-footed creature appears, heightening the sense of escalating threat in the allegorical account.