Shloka 29
Adhyaya 63 — The Birth of Svarocis and the Rescue of Manoramā: The Astra-Heart and the Healing of Curses
मार्कण्डेय उवाच तथैत्यूक्ते ततस्तेन वार्युपस्पृश्य तस्य तत् ।
अस्त्राणां हृदयं प्रादात् सरहस्यनिवर्तनम् ॥
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca tathaityukte tatastena vāryupaspṛśya tasya tat | astrāṇāṃ hṛdayaṃ prādāt sarahasyanivartanam
マールカンデーヤは言った。「それが語られると、彼は浄めのために水に触れ、武器の『心髄』（秘奥の要）と、密かなる撤収・回収（呼び戻し）の方法とを彼に授けた。」
FAQs
Power must be paired with restraint: the ‘withdrawal’ of an astra is taught as carefully as its release. Purity (water-touching) frames transmission of potent knowledge as a dhārmic act, not a merely technical one.
Manvantara: it belongs to the manvantara-episodes describing events and exemplars within a Manu’s era, rather than sarga/pratisarga cosmogenesis.
‘Hṛdaya’ signals an inner key: mastery is not just external force but the inward command that can both project and retract energies—symbolically, disciplined mind controlling its own ‘weapons’ (impulses).