Shloka 27
पश्य चन्द्रे कृतं लक्ष्म समुद्रो लवणोदकः: । तथा भगसहस््रेण महेन्द्र: परिचिल्वित:
paśya candre kṛtaṃ lakṣma samudro lavaṇodakaḥ | tathā bhagasahasreṇa mahendraḥ paricilvitaḥ ||
Vāyu disse: “Vê: pelo poder dos brāhmaṇas foi posta uma mancha na Lua; as águas do oceano foram tornadas salgadas; e Mahendra (Indra) foi marcado com mil sinais de ‘bhaga’. Mais tarde, por essa mesma influência, tais marcas tornaram-se ‘olhos’, e assim Śatakratu Indra ficou conhecido como ‘Sahasrākṣa’ (o de mil olhos).”
वायुदेव उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse highlights the ethical potency attributed to Brāhmaṇical tapas and speech: it can impose consequences on even cosmic entities, and it also has the capacity to transmute misfortune into a new, meaningful form—suggesting responsibility in the use of spiritual power and the possibility of redemptive transformation.
Vāyu points to well-known mythic outcomes credited to Brāhmaṇas’ influence: a blemish on the Moon, the ocean becoming salt-water, and Indra being marked with a thousand ‘bhaga’ signs that later become ‘eyes’, explaining Indra’s epithet ‘Sahasrākṣa’ (thousand-eyed).