Shloka 29
Kṛṣṇasya Dvārakā-praveśaḥ — Krishna’s Return to Dvārakā and the Raivataka Festival
तस्य वेगमसहां तमसहन्ती वसुन्धरा । दण्डकाष्ठाभिनुन्नाज़ी चचाल भृूशमाकुला,उनके उस असह्ा वेगको पृथ्वी भी नहीं सह सकी। वह डंडेकी चोटसे घायल एवं अत्यन्त व्याकुल होकर डगमगाने लगी
tasya vegam asahāṁ tam asahantī vasundharā | daṇḍakāṣṭhābhinunnāśī cacāla bhṛśam ākulā ||
その突進の勢いに耐えかねて、大地そのものも堪えきれなかった。杖の一撃に打たれて傷つき、激しい苦悶のうちに大地は震え、激しく揺らいだ――抑えなき力が暴力へと転ずれば、世界秩序の礎さえ揺さぶることを告げる徴である。
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames excessive, uncontrolled force as ethically destabilizing: when power becomes violent compulsion (daṇḍa without restraint), it disrupts even the Earth—an image for the shaking of dharma and social order.
Vaiśampāyana narrates that the Earth (vasundharā) cannot bear the intensity of a certain being’s rush/force; struck by a wooden staff, she becomes wounded and violently trembles in agitation, functioning as a dramatic portent within the episode.