Shloka 386

Duryodhana Seized by Citraseṇa; Kaurava Petition to Yudhiṣṭhira (दुर्योधनापहारः / चित्रसेनगन्धर्वग्रहणम्)

Devanagari script

ततो विलीनगर्भा सा मानुषी भुवि दृश्यते । जो गन्धर्वोकी माता है, वह गर्भिणी स्त्रीके गर्भभो लेकर चल देती है, जिससे उस मानवी स्त्रीका गर्भ विलीन हुआ देखा जाता है

Transliteration

tato vilīnagarbhā sā mānuṣī bhuvi dṛśyate |

Translation

その後、その人間の女は地上に見いだされる。身ごもっていたはずの胎は消え失せ、子宮は空となっていた――他者の介入によって受胎が消滅させられたことを示すのである。物語の枠内では、これは強大な存在の前における凡人の生の脆さを際立たせ、また無垢なる者に対して超常の力が濫用されることへの倫理的緊張を呼び起こす。

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

विलीनगर्भाhaving a dissolved/vanished fetus; whose pregnancy has disappeared

साshe, that woman

मानुषीa human woman

भुविon the earth, on the ground

दृश्यतेis seen, appears

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

Mārkaṇḍeya (speaker)

a human woman (mānuṣī)

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how extraordinary power can disrupt ordinary human life, implicitly warning that such power must be governed by dharma—especially regarding harm to the innocent and the sanctity of life.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mārkaṇḍeya describes a human woman who is observed with her pregnancy having vanished, implying that her womb-content has been made to disappear through an external (likely supernatural) act.