Shloka 3

Śṛṅgī’s Curse on King Parikṣit

Parikṣit–Śṛṅgī–Takṣaka Causal Link

Devanagari script

वायुकिरुवाच अयं शापो यथोद्दिष्टो विदितं वस्तथानघा: । तस्य शापस्य मोक्षार्थ मन्त्रयित्वा यतामहे

Transliteration

vāyukir uvāca: ayaṁ śāpo yathoddiṣṭo viditaṁ vaḥ tathānaghāḥ | tasya śāpasya mokṣārthaṁ mantrayitvā yatāmahe ||

Translation

ヴァーユキは言った。「咎なきナーガたちよ、この呪詛は宣せられたとおり、すでに汝らの知るところである。ゆえにその呪詛から解放を得るため、共に評議し、救いの方策を求めて努めよう。」

Word by Word

• वासुकिः: Vasuki
• वासुकिः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: वासुकि
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• उवाच: said
• Type: Verb
• Root: वच्
• Form: Perfect, 3, Singular, Parasmaipada

• अयम्: this
• अयम्: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: इदम्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• शापः: curse
• शापः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: शाप
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• यथा: as, in the manner that
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यथा

• उद्दिष्टः: declared, specified
• Type: Adjective
• Root: उद्-√दिश्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• विदितम्: known
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √विद्
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• वः: to you / of you (pl.)
• वः: Sampradana
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: युष्मद्
• Form: Dative/Genitive, Plural

• तथा: thus, so
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तथा

• अनघाः: O sinless ones
• Type: Noun
• Root: अनघ
• Form: Masculine, Vocative, Plural

• तस्य: of that
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: Masculine/Neuter, Genitive, Singular

• शापस्य: of the curse
• Type: Noun
• Root: शाप
• Form: Masculine, Genitive, Singular

• मोक्षार्थम्: for the sake of release
• मोक्षार्थम्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: मोक्ष-अर्थ
• Form: Masculine, Accusative, Singular

• मन्त्रयित्वा: having consulted, after deliberating
• Type: Verb
• Root: मन्त्रय्
• Form: Absolutive (Gerund), Parasmaipada

• यतामहे: we strive, we endeavor
• Type: Verb
• Root: यत्
• Form: Present, 1, Plural, Atmanepada

Speaker

शेष उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyuki
• Nāgas (serpent clan, implied by vocative anaghāḥ)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

When faced with a grave moral-spiritual crisis (a śāpa), one should respond with collective deliberation (mantra) and disciplined effort (yatna), seeking a righteous means of relief rather than despair.

What is happening in the narrative?

A leader among the Nāgas addresses the serpent community, reminding them that the curse is known to all and urging them to consult together to find a way to be freed from it.