Shloka 59
न्यछीवदाकाशगतो महर्षेस्तस्य मूर्थनि । स कोपान्मामुवाचेदं दिश: सर्वा दहन्निव,राजन! उन्हें देखकर ही मेरे एक मित्र राक्षसराज श्रीमणिमानने मूर्खता, अज्ञान, अभिमान एवं मोहके कारण आकाशसे उन महर्षिके मस्तकपर थूक दिया। तब वे क्रोधसे मानो सारी दिशाओंको दग्ध करते हुए मुझसे इस प्रकार बोले---
nyacchīvad ākāśagato maharṣes tasya mūrdhani | sa kopān mām uvācedaṃ diśaḥ sarvā dahann iva |
O King, seeing those sages, my friend—Śrīmaṇimān, the rākṣasa-king—through folly, ignorance, pride, and delusion, rose into the sky and spat upon the head of that great seer. Enraged, the sage then addressed me, as though his wrath were scorching all the directions. The episode underscores how contempt toward the holy rebounds as ruin, and how arrogance blinds one to the moral gravity of one’s acts.
धनेश्वर उवाच
Educational Q&A
Deliberate insult to the spiritually venerable—born of pride and delusion—is a grave ethical breach (adharma) that invites swift and consuming consequences; reverence and restraint are safeguards against self-destruction.
Śrīmaṇimān, a rākṣasa-king and friend of the speaker, flies up and spits on a great sage’s head; the enraged sage then speaks to Dhaneśvara with wrath likened to burning all directions.