Shloka 16
अथ गच्छाम्यहं भद्रे त्वया संगम्य सुस्मिते । यदि त्वं वचन नाद्य करिष्यसि मम प्रियम्,भद्रे! सुन्दर मुसकानवाली पृथे! तुमसे समागम करके मैं पुनः लौट जाऊँगा; परंतु यदि आज तुम मेरा प्रिय वचन नहीं मानोगी तो मैं कुपित होकर तुमको, उस मन्त्रदाता ब्राह्मणको और तुम्हारे पिताको भी शाप दे दूँगा। तुम्हारे कारण मैं उन सबको जलाकर भस्म कर दूँगा; इसमें संशय नहीं है
atha gacchāmy ahaṃ bhadre tvayā saṅgamya susmite | yadi tvaṃ vacanaṃ nādya kariṣyasi mama priyam ||
Sūrya said: “Then, O auspicious one, O gently smiling lady, I shall depart after meeting with you. But if today you do not carry out my dear request, I will become wrathful and curse you, the Brahmin who gave you the mantra, and even your father. Because of you I will burn them all to ashes—of this there is no doubt.”
सूर्य उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage highlights an ethical crisis where divine power is used as pressure: threats of a curse are invoked to compel compliance. It implicitly foregrounds the dharmic tension between desire backed by power and the moral requirement that actions—especially intimate ones—should not be forced through fear or harm to innocents.
Sūrya addresses Pṛthā (Kuntī), saying he will leave after meeting her, but warns that if she does not fulfill his desired request that very day, he will angrily curse her, the Brahmin who gave her the mantra, and her father—threatening destruction as leverage.