Shloka 30
Gandhamādana-praveśa and the Sudden Storm (गन्धमादनप्रवेशः — चण्डवातवर्षवर्णनम्)
युधिछिर उवाच भगवन् विस्तरेणेमां कथां कथय तत्त्वतः । कथं तेन सुरेशेन नष्टा वसुमती तदा,युधिष्ठिरने पूछा--भगवन्! देवेश्वर भगवान् विष्णुने पातालमें सैकड़ों योजन नीचे डूबी हुई इस पृथ्वीका पुनरुद्धार किस प्रकार किया? आप इस कथाको यथार्थरूपसे और विस्तारपूर्वक कहिये। जगत्का भार धारण करनेवाली इस अचला पृथ्वीका उद्धार करनेके लिये उन्होंने किस उपायका अवलम्बन किया?
yudhiṣṭhira uvāca | bhagavan vistareṇemāṃ kathāṃ kathaya tattvataḥ | kathaṃ tena sureśena naṣṭā vasumatī tadā |
Yudhiṣṭhira said: “O revered one, recount this story to me in full detail and in accordance with the truth. How was the Earth—this bearer of the world’s burden—lost at that time, and by what means did that Lord of the gods bring her back?”
युधिछिर उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse models dharmic inquiry: one should seek truthful, detailed understanding (tattvataḥ) of sacred history, especially regarding how divine power restores cosmic balance when the world is endangered.
Yudhiṣṭhira asks the narrator to explain, in full and truthfully, the episode in which the Earth disappeared and how the ‘lord of the gods’ restored her—introducing a cosmological rescue narrative (commonly associated with the Earth’s retrieval from the depths).