Shloka 5
अबुद्धिपूर्वकपापविमोचनप्रश्नः — Janamejaya’s Unintended Transgression and the Indrota Rebuke
भस्मीभवति सा नारी यस्या भर्ता न तुष्यति । अग्निको साक्षी बनाकर स्त्रीका जिसके साथ विवाह हो गया, वही उसका पति है और वही उसके लिये परम देवता है। जिसका पति संतुष्ट नहीं रहता, वह नारी दावानलसे दग्ध हुई पुष्पगुच्छोंसहित लताके समान भस्म हो जाती है ।।
bhasmībhavati sā nārī yasyā bhartā na tuṣyati | agniko sākṣī banākara strīkā jisake sātha vivāha ho gayā, vahī usakā pati hai aur vahī usake liye paramadevatā hai | yasyāḥ patiḥ saṃtuṣṭo na tiṣṭhati, sā nārī dāvānalena dagdhā puṣpagucchaiḥ sahitā latā iva bhasmībhavati || iti saṃcintya duḥkhārtā bhartāraṃ duḥkhitaṃ tadā
ビーシュマは言った。「夫が満足しない女は灰となる。火を証人として婚姻を結んだ相手こそが真の夫であり、妻にとって彼は最高の神である。夫の満足が保たれぬなら、彼女はしおれ、花房をつけた蔓草が山火事に焼かれて灰となるように、焼き尽くされる。」そう思い巡らし、悲嘆に沈む彼女は、そのとき夫が苦悩しているのを見た。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse stresses the sanctity of marriage (sealed with Agni as witness) and frames a wife’s dharma as centered on maintaining harmony and her husband’s contentment, using the metaphor of a flowering creeper burned to ash to depict the ruin caused by marital discord.
Bhishma is instructing on household and marital duty in the Shanti Parva. After stating the principle and its consequences through vivid imagery, the passage transitions to a scene where a sorrow-stricken woman, having reflected on this, finds her husband distressed.