Shloka 21

Adhyaya 62 — The Fire-God Enters the Brahmin Youth; Varuthini’s Love-Sickness and Kali’s Disguise

Sanskrit

मानुषे सानुरागेयं तत्र तद्रूपधारिणि ।

रंस्यते मय्यसंदिग्धं किं कालेन करोमि तत् ॥

Transliteration

mānuṣe sānurāgeyaṃ tatra tadrūpadhāriṇi | raṃsyate mayy asaṃdigdhaṃ kiṃ kālena karomi tat ||

Translation

私がそこで人としてその姿を取れば、この女は—愛情に満ちて—必ずや私と共に喜ぶであろう。時を待つ（遅らせる）必要がどこにある。

Word by Word

• mānuṣe: in a human (form)
• mānuṣe: Adhikarana (अधिकरण/Location)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mānuṣa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter (नपुंसकलिङ्ग) or Masculine; Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular; here locative sense ‘in/with a human (form)’

• sānurāgā: affectionate
• sānurāgā: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: sa-anurāga (प्रातिपदिक: स + अनुराग)
• Form: Feminine, Nominative, Singular; adjective qualifying iyam

• iyam: this (woman)
• iyam: Karta (कर्ता/Subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Pronoun; Feminine, Nominative, Singular

• tatra: there
• tatra: Adhikarana (अधिकरण/Location)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tatra (अव्यय)
• Form: Adverb (देशवाचक अव्यय)

• tat: that
• tat: Karma (कर्म/Object)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Demonstrative used adjectivally; Neuter, Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular; qualifying rūpam (understood in compound)

• rūpa-dhāriṇi: in (her) who bears that form
• rūpa-dhāriṇi: Adhikarana (अधिकरण/Location)
• Type: Noun
• Root: rūpa + dhāriṇī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Feminine, Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular; tatpuruṣa ‘one who bears a form’

• raṃsyate: will delight / will enjoy
• raṃsyate: Kriya (क्रिया/Verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √ram (धातु)
• Form: Present (लट्), 3rd person, Singular, Ātmanepada (आत्मनेपद); passive-like in sense ‘will take delight’ depending on context

• mayi: in me
• mayi: Adhikarana (अधिकरण/Location)
• Type: Noun
• Root: asmad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Pronoun; Locative (7th/सप्तमी), Singular

• asandigdham: undoubtedly
• asandigdham: Adhikarana (अधिकरण/Adverbial)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: a-sandigdha (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Adverbial accusative used as indeclinable (नपुंसक एकवचन द्वितीया in adverbial sense)

• kim: what (use)
• kim: Karana (करण/Instrument)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kim (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Interrogative pronoun; Neuter, Instrumental (3rd/तृतीया), Singular; used idiomatically with kālena

• kālena: with time / by delay
• kālena: Karana (करण/Instrument)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kāla (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Masculine, Instrumental (3rd/तृतीया), Singular

• karomi: do I do
• karomi: Kriya (क्रिया/Verb)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √kṛ (धातु)
• Form: Present (लट्), 1st person (उत्तमपुरुष), Singular, Parasmaipada

• tat: that
• tat: Karma (कर्म/Object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: Neuter, Accusative (2nd/द्वितीया), Singular; object of karomi

Speakers

• Kali (intent/soliloquy within the narrative)

Verse Rasa

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Key Themes

• Shape-shifting
• Kali-yuga psychology
• Impatience and temptation

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

Adharma accelerates: impatience (‘what need of time?’) is paired with deception (assumed form). The text highlights how desire recruits disguise and urgency to bypass consent and discernment.

How does this fit the Pancalakshana (5 characteristics)?

Ākhyāna (didactic narrative) embedded in the Purāṇa; it supports dharma-teaching by portraying the mechanisms of temptation rather than enumerating cosmic genealogies.

What is the esoteric significance?

‘Assuming human form’ indicates the descent of subtle vice into embodied action—when inner impulse concretizes into behavior. ‘Kāla’ (time) also hints at restraint; refusal to wait is refusal of discipline.