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Shloka 1

Vasiṣṭhāpavāha: Sarasvatī’s Diversion and Viśvāmitra’s Curse (वसिष्ठापवाहः)

Devanagari script

०: ड-शक्ाझ एकचत्वारिशो< ध्याय: अवाकीर्ण और यायात तीर्थकी महिमाके प्रसंगमें दाल्भ्यकी कथा और ययातिके यज्ञका वर्णन वैशम्पायन उवाच ब्रह्मययोनेरवाकीर्ण जगाम यदुनन्दन: । यत्र दाल्भ्यो बको राजन्नाश्रमस्थो महातपा:

Transliteration

vaiśampāyana uvāca | brahmayoner avākīrṇāj jagāma yadunandanaḥ | yatra dālbhyō bako rājann āśramastho mahātapāḥ | krodhena mahatāviṣṭo dharmātmā vai pratāpavān |

Translation

ヴァイシャンパーヤナは語った。王よ、ヤドゥ族の喜び（バララーマ）は、ブラーフマナの位を授けるという聖なる渡しを発って、アヴァーキールナ（Avākīrṇa）と名づけられたティールタへ赴いた。そこには、庵に住むダールビーの子バカがいた。彼は大苦行者にして、法にかなう者、威力ある者であったが、かつて激しい怒りに囚われ、苛烈な儀礼を行って、ドリタラーシュトラの国土に破滅をもたらしたのである。

Word by Word

वैशम्पायनःVaishampayana

उवाचsaid

ब्रह्मयोनिःBrahmayoni (a tīrtha; lit. 'source of brahman')

अवाकीर्णम्Avākīrṇa (name of a tīrtha)

जगामwent

यदुनन्दनःdescendant/delight of the Yadus (Balarāma)

यत्रwhere

दाल्भ्यःDālbhy(a) (patronymic/sage)

बकःBaka (name of a sage)

राजन्O king

आश्रमस्थःdwelling in an āśrama

महातपाःof great austerity

क्रोधेनby/with anger

महताgreat

आविष्टःpossessed/overcome

धर्मात्माrighteous-souled

वैindeed

प्रतापवान्mighty, valorous

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Balarāma

Yadu dynasty (Yadus)

Brahmayoni tīrtha

Avākīrṇa tīrtha

Dālbhi

Baka (son of Dālbhi)

Āśrama (hermitage)

Dhṛtarāṣṭra

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?

The verse highlights the ethical danger of krodha (anger): even a dharmic ascetic with great tapas can, when overtaken by wrath, direct spiritual power toward harm, with consequences extending beyond the individual to an entire polity.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana continues the account of Balarāma’s pilgrimage: after leaving the Brahmayoni tīrtha, he reaches Avākīrṇa, a place associated with the ascetic Baka (son of Dālbhi), whose anger-driven act is recalled as part of the tīrtha’s remembered history.