Shloka 6

Adhyāya 164: Gautama as Guest; Kaśyapa’s Satkāra and the Fourfold Arthagati; Journey to Virūpākṣa

Devanagari script

एतेषामुदयं स्थान क्षयं च पृथिवीपते । हन्त ते कथयिष्यामि क्रोधस्योत्पत्तिमादित:

Transliteration

eteṣām udayaṃ sthānaṃ kṣayaṃ ca pṛthivīpate | hanta te kathayiṣyāmi krodhasyotpattim āditaḥ ||

Translation

ಹೇ ಭೂಪತೇ! ಈ ದೋಷಗಳ ಉದಯ, ಅವು ನೆಲೆಸುವ ಸ್ಥಾನ, ಮತ್ತು ಅವುಗಳ ಕ್ಷಯ—ಇವೆಲ್ಲವನ್ನೂ ನಾನು ನಿನಗೆ ವಿವರಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ. ಬಾ, ಮೊದಲಾಗಿ ಕ್ರೋಧವು ಹೇಗೆ ಹುಟ್ಟುತ್ತದೆ ಎಂಬುದನ್ನು ಹೇಳುತ್ತೇನೆ.

Word by Word

एतेषाम्of these

उदयम्rise/origin

स्थानम्abode/seat

क्षयम्decay/destruction

चand

पृथिवीपतेO lord of the earth (king)

हन्तindeed/lo!/well then

तेto you

कथयिष्यामिI shall tell

क्रोधस्यof anger

उत्पत्तिम्origin/arising

आदितःfrom the beginning

Speaker

भीष्म उवाच

Characters & Entities

Bhīṣma

Pṛthivīpati (the king, i.e., Yudhiṣṭhira)

Krodha (anger)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Bhīṣma frames anger as a moral-psychological problem with a knowable lifecycle—origin, support, and dissolution—implying that ethical mastery begins by understanding how anger arises and what sustains it.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Śānti Parva’s instruction to the king, Bhīṣma transitions into a systematic explanation of inner faults, announcing that he will begin by describing the genesis of anger (krodha).