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Shloka 27

पाण्डोः प्रेतकार्य-सम्पादनम्

Pāṇḍu’s Funeral Rites and Public Mourning

द्वयोर्नुशंसकर्तारमवशं काममोहितम्‌ | जीवितान्तकरो भाव एवमेवागमिष्यति,तुमने मैथुन-धर्ममें आसक्त दो स्त्री-पुरुषोंका निष्ठुरता-पूर्वक वध किया है। तुम अजितेन्द्रिय एवं कामसे मोहित हो; अतः इसी प्रकार मैथुनमें आसक्त होनेपर जीवनका अन्त करनेवाली मृत्यु निश्चय ही तुमपर आक्रमण करेगी

dvayor nuśaṃsakartāram avaśaṃ kāmamohitam | jīvitāntakaro bhāva evam evāgamiṣyati ||

मैथुनात आसक्त अशा दोन जीवांचा तू निर्दयपणे वध केलास. इंद्रिये अजिंक्य असून काममोहाने तू विवश झालास. म्हणून ज्या प्रकारे तू केलेस, त्याच प्रकारे—तूही कामावेशात सापडशील तेव्हा—जीवनाचा अंत करणारी मृत्यु निश्चयाने तुझ्यावर येईल.

द्वयोःof two
द्वयोः:
Sambandha
TypeNoun
Rootद्वि
Form—, Genitive, Dual
अनुशंसकर्तारम्the doer of cruelty/violence (one who commits harm)
अनुशंसकर्तारम्:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootअनुशंसकर्तृ
FormMasculine, Accusative, Singular
अवशम्helpless, uncontrolled
अवशम्:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootअवश
FormMasculine, Accusative, Singular
काममोहितम्deluded by desire
काममोहितम्:
Karma
TypeAdjective
Rootकाममोहित
FormMasculine, Accusative, Singular
जीवितान्तकरःlife-ending (death-bringing)
जीवितान्तकरः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootजीवितान्तकर
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
भावःevent, fate, occurrence
भावः:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootभाव
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
एवम्thus, in this manner
एवम्:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएवम्
एवindeed, certainly
एव:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootएव
आगमिष्यतिwill come, will befall
आगमिष्यति:
TypeVerb
Rootआ-गम्
FormSimple Future (Luṭ), 3rd, Singular, Parasmaipada

मृग उवाच

M
mṛga (the deer, speaker)
A
a pair of deer (male and female, implied by dvayoḥ)

Educational Q&A

Unrestrained desire and cruelty (especially violence driven by passion or heedlessness) rebound upon the doer: lack of self-control invites inevitable suffering, here framed as death arriving in the same context of lust.

A deer addresses the hunter who has killed a mating pair; the deer pronounces a consequence/curse: because the killer was deluded by desire and uncontrolled, death will likewise strike him when he is overcome by passion.