Shloka 39

Indra's Campaign on Mount Malaya — Indra’s Campaign on Mount Malaya and the Birth of the Maruts (Origin of the Epithet Gotrabhid)

Devanagari script

ममास्ति नापराधो ऽयं यच्छास्तस्तनयस्तव तवैवापनयाच्छस्तस्तन्मे न क्रोद्धमर्हसि

Transliteration

mamāsti nāparādho 'yaṃ yacchāstastanayastava tavaivāpanayācchastastanme na kroddhamarhasi

Translation

ଏହା ମୋର ଅପରାଧ ନୁହେଁ; କାରଣ ତୁମ ପୁତ୍ର ଦଣ୍ଡନୀୟ ଥିଲା। ତୁମେ ନିଜେ ତାହାର ରକ୍ଷା/ପୁଣ୍ୟ ଅପସାରଣ କଲ; ତେଣୁ ସେ ଦଣ୍ଡଯୋଗ୍ୟ ହେଲା। ଏହିପରି ମୋପରେ କ୍ରୋଧ କରିବା ଉଚିତ୍ ନୁହେଁ।

Speakers

• Indra speaking to Diti

Primary Deities

• Indra (Śakra)
• Diti

Key Themes

• Justification vs. culpability
• Power of vows and their breach
• Ethics of divine violence
• Appeasement to avert a curse

Verse Rasa (Emotional Flavour)

{ "primaryRasa": "raudra", "secondaryRasa": "shanta", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }

FAQs

How should Indra’s claim “it is not my offense” be understood in Purāṇic ethics?

It is a rhetorical self-defense: Indra shifts causality to Diti’s lapse (loss of protective merit due to āpacāra), presenting his act as enabled by her breach. Purāṇas often frame outcomes as jointly produced by agency plus the weakening of tapas/vrata through error.

What does “apanaya” (“removal”) refer to here?

In context it indicates the mother’s loss or removal of the protective force of her observance—i.e., the merit/guard that would have prevented Indra’s intrusion. The text uses this to explain how the embryo became ‘liable to chastisement’ (śāsta).

Does this passage connect to any named tīrtha or sacred landscape?

No geographic markers appear in the supplied verse. The focus is interpersonal (Indra–Diti) and etiological (Marut origins), not a catalog of rivers, forests, or pilgrimage sites.