Shloka 3
वे महर्षिगण राजा द्युमत्सेनसे सावित्रीके उस परम सौभाग्यका बारंबार वर्णन करते हुए भी तृप्त नहीं होते थे ।। ततः प्रकृतय: सर्वा: शाल्वेभ्यो5भ्यागता नृप । आचर्ख्यु्निहतं चैव स्वेनामात्येन तं द्विषम्,राजन्! उसी समय शाल्वदेशसे वहाँकी सारी प्रजाओंने आकर महाराज झट्ुमत्सेनसे कहा--'प्रभो! आपका शत्रु अपने ही मन्त्रीके हाथों मारा गया है'
te maharṣigaṇā rājan dyumatsenam savitrīke tasya parama-saubhāgyasya bāraṃbāraṃ varṇayantaḥ api tṛptā na bhavanti sma | tataḥ prakṛtayaḥ sarvāḥ śālvebhyo 'bhyāgatā nṛpa | ācakhyuḥ nihataṃ caiva svenāmātyena taṃ dviṣam | rājan—prabho, tava śatruḥ svenaiva mantriṇā hataḥ |
Mārkaṇḍeya said: “O king, those companies of great seers, even while repeatedly describing to Dyumatsena and Sāvitrī her supreme good fortune, could not feel satisfied. Then all the subjects came from the land of the Śālvas and reported to the king: ‘Lord, your enemy has been slain—killed by his own minister.’”
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage highlights how extraordinary virtue and auspicious destiny (saubhāgya) draw the admiration of sages, and how political stability can be restored through the collapse of unjust hostility—here symbolized by an enemy being undone from within his own administration.
After sages repeatedly praise Sāvitrī’s exceptional good fortune to Dyumatsena and Sāvitrī, the subjects from the Śālva land arrive and inform Dyumatsena that his enemy has been killed—strikingly, by the enemy’s own minister—signaling a reversal of threat and a return toward order.