Shloka 57
Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu
ऋषिरुवाच ऋतवागिति विख्यातस्तपस्वी रेवतीं प्रति ।
चकार कोपं क्रुद्धेन तेनर्क्षं विनिपातितम् ॥
ṛṣir uvāca ṛtavāg iti vikhyātas tapasvī revatīṃ prati / cakāra kopaṃ kruddhena tenarkṣaṃ vinipātitam
仙人は言った。「かつて、リタヴァーク（Ṛtavāk）と名高い一人の苦行者がレーヴァティーに怒りを抱き、その憤怒によって、そのナクシャトラを落下させた（投げ落とした）のだ。」
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FAQs
Tapas confers potency that can affect even cosmic structures, but anger (krodha) misdirects that power. The narrative warns that spiritual force without restraint becomes destructive.
Ancillary narrative (vaṃśānucarita/ākhyāna) illustrating moral causality; not a primary sarga/pratisarga/manvantara segment.
A ‘fallen’ nakshatra symbolizes a disrupted dharmic calendar—when truth-speech (ṛta-vāk) turns into wrath, cosmic order (ṛta) is symbolically destabilized.