Shloka 3
अश्वत्थाम-शापः, परिक्षिद्भविष्यत्, मणि-न्यासः
Aśvatthāman’s Curse, Parikṣit’s Future, and the Mani’s Restitution
“पहलेकी बात है, राजा विराटकी कन्या और गाण्डीवधारी अर्जुनकी पुत्रवधू जब उपप्लव्यनगरमें रहती थी, उस समय किसी व्रतवान् ब्राह्मणने उसे देखकर कहा-- ।।
pūrvavṛttam idaṃ rājñi virāṭasya sutā tathā | gāṇḍīvadhāry arjunasya snuṣā copaplavye pure vasantīṃ vratavān brāhmaṇo dṛṣṭvā prāha— parikṣīṇeṣu kuruṣu putras tava bhaviṣyati | etad asya parikṣittvaṃ garbhasthasya bhaviṣyati ||
ヴァイシャンパーヤナは言った。「これは以前の出来事である。ヴィラータ王の娘――ガーンディーヴァを担うアルジュナの嫁となった者――がウパプラヴィヤの都に住んでいた折、誓戒を守るバラモンが彼女を見て予言した。『クル族の系統が尽き果てたとき、汝は一人の男子を得るであろう。クル族が衰微した時代に生まれるゆえ、汝の胎内の子はパリークシト（Parīkṣit）と名づけられる。』」
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
Even when a lineage seems destroyed by adharma and war, dharma reasserts continuity through rightful heirs; disciplined spiritual insight (a vratavān brāhmaṇa) frames suffering within a larger moral and cosmic order.
Vaiśampāyana recalls a prior moment in Upaplavya when a vow-observing brāhmaṇa foretells to Virāṭa’s daughter (Arjuna’s daughter-in-law) that after the Kuru line is greatly diminished, she will bear a son who will be named Parīkṣit because he is born when the Kurus are ‘parikṣīṇa’ (exhausted).