Shloka 56
Adhyaya 2 — The Lineage of Garuda and the Birth of the Wise Birds: Kanka and Kandhara
इति शुक्रवचः सत्यं कृतमेभिः खगोत्तमैः ।
ये युद्धेऽपि न सम्प्राप्ताः पञ्चत्वमतिमानुषे ॥
iti śukravacaḥ satyaṃ kṛtam ebhiḥ khagottamaiḥ / ye yuddhe ’pi na samprāptāḥ pañcatvamatimānuṣe //
ഈ ശ്രേഷ്ഠ പക്ഷികൾ ശുക്രമുനിയുടെ വാക്കിനെ സത്യമാക്കി. യുദ്ധത്തിലുപോലും ‘പഞ്ചത്വം’ (മരണം) പ്രാപിക്കാത്തവർ, മനുഷ്യപരിമിതിയെ അതിക്രമിച്ച രീതിയിൽ അതിനെ പ്രാപിച്ചു।
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FAQs
The verse underscores inevitability and moral causality: a pronouncement by an authoritative figure (Śukra) is ‘made true’ through the agency of the dharmic birds, and those spared death in battle still meet it through extraordinary means. Ethically, it hints that outcomes (like death) are not avoided merely by circumstance; they mature according to higher order—dharma, destiny, or the efficacy of a truthful/authorized utterance.
This verse does not directly present sarga (creation), pratisarga, vaṃśa (genealogy), manvantara, or vaṃśānucarita as primary data. It fits best as vaṃśānucarita-adjacent narrative/ethical instruction within the Purāṇic frame-story (ākhyāna) rather than a core pancalakṣaṇa enumerative passage.
‘Pañcatva’ points to dissolution into the five elements (pañca-bhūta), a reminder of embodied impermanence. ‘Ati-mānuṣe’ suggests that forces beyond ordinary human agency—dharma personified (the wise birds), the power of a realized statement (vāk-satya), or subtle destiny—govern transitions like death, even when one appears to have escaped them in the visible arena of battle.