Shloka 5
Cyavana’s Reconciliation with Indra; Tīrtha-Indexing at Ārcīka-parvata and Yamunā
Chapter 125
सोमाहविश्चिनावेतौ यथा वाद्य कृतौ त्वया । भूय एव तु ते वीर्य प्रकाशेदिति भार्गव
somāhavīś cināv etau yathā vādya-kṛtau tvayā | bhūya eva tu te vīryaṁ prakāśed iti bhārgava ||
Lomasa said: “These two—Somāhavi and Cinā—have been fashioned by you like instruments meant to be played. Yet, O Bhārgava, may your prowess be revealed once again.”
लोगमश उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights how speech can both praise and provoke: comparing persons to instruments suggests they are being handled or shaped by another’s will, while the wish that valor be shown again points to the ethical tension between demonstrating strength and exercising restraint.
Lomasa addresses Bhārgava, remarking that two figures (Somāhavi and Cinā) have been made to act like ‘playable instruments’ by him, and then expresses (or urges) that Bhārgava’s heroic power should manifest again—implying a renewed display of prowess.