Shloka 2

उत्पातदर्शनम् — Portents and Kāla among the Vṛṣṇis

Devanagari script

इस प्रकार श्रीमहाभारत मौसलपर्वमें उत्पातदर्शनविषयक दूसरा अध्याय पूरा हुआ,अग्निहोत्रनिकेतेषु वास्तुमध्येषु वेश्मसु । वृष्ण्यन्धकानखादन्त स्वप्ने गृध्रा भयानका: अग्निहोत्रगृहोंमें जिनके मध्यभागमें वास्तुकी पूजा-प्रतिष्ठा हुई है, ऐसे घरोंमें भयंकर गृध्र आकर वृष्णि और अन्धकवंशके मनुष्योंको पकड़-पकड़कर खा रहे हैं। यह भी स्वप्रमें दिखायी देता था

Transliteration

agnihotraniketeṣu vāstumadhyeṣu veśmasu | vṛṣṇyandhakān akhādanta svapne gṛdhrā bhayānakāḥ ||

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは語った。「また夢の中で、人々は恐るべき禿鷲がアグニホートラの聖火を守る家々へ入り込み—中央の間がヴァーストゥの儀礼によって清め定められた住まいでさえ—そこでヴリシュニ族とアンダカ族の男たちをつかまえて喰らうのを見た。」

Word by Word

अग्निहोत्रनिकेतेषुin the agnihotra-dwellings (houses of fire-ritual)

वास्तुमध्येषुin the central parts of the house-site

वेश्मसुin the houses

वृष्ण्यन्धकान्the Vrishnis and Andhakas

अखादन्ate / were eating

स्वप्नेin a dream

गृध्राःvultures

भयानकाःterrifying

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Agnihotra (sacred fire rite)

Vāstu (house-site consecration/deity)

Vṛṣṇi clan

Andhaka clan

Vultures (gṛdhrāḥ)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Even sanctified spaces and established rites cannot shield a community when collective adharma and the ripening of karma have set destruction in motion; ominous dreams function as moral warnings of an approaching collapse.

What is happening in the narrative?

A series of inauspicious portents is being described: in dreams, dreadful vultures enter consecrated homes with the household sacred fire and devour members of the Vṛṣṇi and Andhaka clans, foreshadowing the imminent downfall of the Yādavas in the Mausala Parva.