Shloka 47
Duryodhana Seized by Citraseṇa; Kaurava Petition to Yudhiṣṭhira (दुर्योधनापहारः / चित्रसेनगन्धर्वग्रहणम्)
यः पश्यति नरो देवान् जाग्रदू वा शयितोडपि वा । उन्माद्यति स तुक्षिप्रं तं तु देवग्रह॑ विदु:,जो मनुष्य जागते या सोतेमें देवताओंको देखता और तुरंत पागल हो जाता है, उस वष्ट देनेवाले ग्रहको 'देवग्रह” कहते हैं
yaḥ paśyati naro devān jāgrad vā śayito 'pi vā | unmādyati sa tu kṣipraṃ taṃ tu devagrahaṃ viduḥ ||
Mārkaṇḍeya said: “If a man sees the gods—whether he is awake or even lying asleep—and he quickly falls into madness, the wise recognize that affliction as ‘devagraha’, a divine seizure.”
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
Extraordinary visions of the gods, when followed by sudden loss of mental balance, are framed here not as spiritual attainment but as a dangerous affliction—‘devagraha’—warning that not every supernatural experience is auspicious or stabilizing.
Mārkaṇḍeya explains a traditional classification of a harmful condition: if someone beholds divine beings in waking or sleeping states and rapidly becomes deranged, that state is identified as ‘devagraha’, a kind of divine-induced seizure or possession.