Shloka 23
शार्दूलचरवृत्तान्तः
Saardula’s Spy-Report on Rama’s Camp and the Vanara Host
सुमुखोदुर्मुखश्चात्रवेगदर्शीचवानरः ।मृत्युर्वानररूपेणनूनंसृष्टस्स्वयम्भुवा ।।6.30.23।।
sumukho durmukhaś cātra vegadarśī ca vānaraḥ | mṛtyur vānararūpeṇa nūnaṃ sṛṣṭaḥ svayambhuvā || 6.30.23 ||
ここにスムカ、ドゥルムカ、そして猿族のヴェーガダルシーがいる。まことに自生者ブラフマーが、死そのものを猿族の戦士の姿として造り出したのだ。
"Vanaras Sumukha, Durmukha and Vegadarsi are surely created by Brahma in the Vanara form of Death-God."
FAQs
Adharma inevitably summons its own ‘death’: the verse frames the righteous coalition as an instrument of cosmic justice.
Śārdūla intensifies the warning by portraying the vānaras as embodiments of inevitable destruction for the unrighteous.
Fearless resolve in service of a just war—unyielding pursuit of rightful outcome.