Shloka 67
आदि पर्व, अध्याय 67 — गान्धर्वविवाह-समयः
Duḥṣanta–Śakuntalā: Gandharva Marriage and Succession Condition
कालनेमिरिति ख्यातो दानवानां महाबल: । स कंस इति विख्यात उग्रसेनसुतो बली,दानवोंमें जो महाबली कालनेमि था, वही राजा उग्रसेनके पुत्र बलवान् कंसके नामसे विख्यात हुआ इति श्रीमहाभारते आदिपर्वणि सम्भवपर्वणि अंशावतरणसमाप्तौ सप्तषष्टितमो5ध्याय:
kālanemir iti khyāto dānavānāṁ mahābalaḥ | sa kaṁsa iti vikhyāta ugrasenāsuto balī ||
ਵੈਸ਼ੰਪਾਯਨ ਨੇ ਆਖਿਆ—ਦਾਨਵਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਜੋ ਮਹਾਬਲਵਾਨ ‘ਕਾਲਨੇਮੀ’ ਨਾਮ ਨਾਲ ਖਿਆਤ ਸੀ, ਉਹੀ ਉਗ੍ਰਸੇਨ ਦਾ ਬਲਵਾਨ ਪੁੱਤਰ ‘ਕੰਸ’ ਨਾਮ ਨਾਲ ਪ੍ਰਸਿੱਧ ਹੋਇਆ।
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse conveys a moral-cosmic idea central to the epic: adharma is not merely a single event but a recurring force that can re-emerge through rebirth, and the preservation of dharma involves recognizing and confronting such recurring patterns of destructive power.
In the Aṁśāvataraṇa (partial-incarnation) account, Vaiśampāyana identifies a continuity of beings across births: the Dānava Kālanemi is said to have become Kaṁsa, the powerful son of Ugrasena, thereby linking earlier asuric hostility to later historical events in the Yādava context.