Shloka 29
Adhyaya 63 — The Birth of Svarocis and the Rescue of Manoramā: The Astra-Heart and the Healing of Curses
मार्कण्डेय उवाच तथैत्यूक्ते ततस्तेन वार्युपस्पृश्य तस्य तत् ।
अस्त्राणां हृदयं प्रादात् सरहस्यनिवर्तनम् ॥
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca tathaityukte tatastena vāryupaspṛśya tasya tat | astrāṇāṃ hṛdayaṃ prādāt sarahasyanivartanam
Mārkaṇḍeya berkata: Setelah kata-kata itu diucapkan, beliau menyentuh air untuk penyucian lalu menganugerahkan kepadanya “hati” (rahsia inti) segala senjata, beserta kaedah sulit untuk penarikan balik (pemanggilan semula).
FAQs
Power must be paired with restraint: the ‘withdrawal’ of an astra is taught as carefully as its release. Purity (water-touching) frames transmission of potent knowledge as a dhārmic act, not a merely technical one.
Manvantara: it belongs to the manvantara-episodes describing events and exemplars within a Manu’s era, rather than sarga/pratisarga cosmogenesis.
‘Hṛdaya’ signals an inner key: mastery is not just external force but the inward command that can both project and retract energies—symbolically, disciplined mind controlling its own ‘weapons’ (impulses).