Shloka 4
तारोपदेशः
Tara’s Counsel to Vali on Sugriva’s Roar and Rama’s Alliance
वाली दंष्ट्राकरालस्तु क्रोधाद्दीप्ताग्निसन्निभः।भात्युत्पतितपद्मस्तु समृणाळ इव ह्रदः।।
vālī daṃṣṭrā-karālas tu krodhād dīptāgni-sannibhaḥ |
bhāty utpatita-padmas tu samṛṇāla iva hradaḥ ||
ವಾಲಿ ದಂಷ್ಟ್ರಗಳನ್ನು ಬಿಚ್ಚಿ ಭಯಂಕರನಾಗಿ, ಕ್ರೋಧದಿಂದ ದೀಪ್ತವಾದ ಅಗ್ನಿಯಂತೆ ಪ್ರಕಾಶಿಸುತ್ತಿದ್ದನು; ಕಿತ್ತುಹೋದ ಪದ್ಮಗಳಿಂದ ಕೇವಲ ನಾಳಗಳು ಮಾತ್ರ ಉಳಿದ ಹ್ರದದಂತೆ ಅವನು ಕಾಣುತ್ತಿದ್ದನು.
Vali, who looked fierce with his teeth and whose eyes shone like a flaming fire through anger looked like a pond with the lotuses and their stalks uprooted.
FAQs
Dharma cautions that anger deforms one’s nature and beauty—like a pond ruined by uprooted lotuses—signaling moral and psychological disorder.
The narrator paints Vālī’s terrifying, anger-driven appearance as he is provoked and becomes unfit for calm judgment.
Inner serenity is implied as the virtue; Vālī’s loss of it is presented as a warning.