Shloka 31
कुमाराश्च कुमार्यश्न ये प्रोक्ता: स्कन्दसम्भवा: । तेडपि गर्भभुज: सर्वे कौरव्य सुमहाग्रहा:,कुरुनन्दन! स्कन्दके शरीरसे उत्पन्न हुए जिन कुमार एवं कुमारियोंका वर्णन किया गया है, वे सभी गर्भस्थ बालकोंका भक्षण करनेवाले महान् ग्रह हैं
kumārāś ca kumāryaś ca ye proktāḥ skanda-sambhavāḥ | te 'pi garbha-bhujaḥ sarve kauravya su-mahā-grahāḥ ||
Mārkaṇḍeya said: “Those boys and girls who are described as born from Skanda—O scion of the Kurus—are all, indeed, mighty ‘seizers’ (grahas) who prey upon embryos in the womb. Thus the account warns of unseen forces that endanger the vulnerable and calls for vigilant protection and righteous rites.”
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames certain ‘Skanda-born’ beings as dangerous grahas that harm the unborn, underscoring a dharmic duty to protect life at its most vulnerable and to respond to unseen harms through vigilance and proper, righteous observances.
Mārkaṇḍeya continues a description of Skanda-associated beings, identifying the previously mentioned boys and girls as powerful grahas—malevolent afflictors—whose specific activity is consuming embryos in the womb.