Shloka 35
दैव–पुरुषकार-प्रश्नः
Daiva–Puruṣakāra Inquiry: Fate and Human Effort
बलिदवीैरोचनिर्बद्धों धर्मपाशेन दैवतै: । विष्णो: पुरुषकारेण पातालसदन: कृत:,विरोचनकुमार बलिको देवताओंने धर्मपाशसे बाँध लिया और भगवान् विष्णुके पुरुषार्थसे वे पातालवासी बना दिये गये
Balir vairocanir baddho dharmapāśena daivataiḥ | Viṣṇoḥ puruṣakāreṇa pātālasadanaḥ kṛtaḥ ||
ビーシュマは言った。「ヴィローチャナの子バリは、神々によりダルマの縄（法の投げ縄）で縛られ、そしてヴィシュヌの断乎たる働きによって、パーターラ（Pātāla）の住人と定められた。」この逸話は、いかに強大な王であれ正しい秩序を踏み越えれば抑えられること、また神の介入は均衡を回復するために、しばしば滅ぼすのではなく権能を移し替える形で行われることを示す。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Power is not self-justifying: when authority violates dharma, it becomes legitimately restrainable (‘dharmapāśa’). The verse also highlights that divine agency (Viṣṇu’s puruṣakāra) restores equilibrium—sometimes by relocating and limiting a ruler’s domain rather than annihilating him.
Bhīṣma recalls the fate of Bali, son of Virocana: the gods bind him with the ‘noose of Dharma,’ and through Viṣṇu’s effective intervention Bali is made to dwell in Pātāla (the netherworld), indicating a divinely enforced curtailment and reassignment of his sovereignty.