Shloka 163

Devanagari script

वैरबद्धा भविष्यन्ति परस्परवधैषिण: । विद्याके बिना ज्ञान न होनेसे उन सबको लोभ दबा लेगा। फिर लोभ और क्रोधके वशीभूत हुए मूढ़ मनुष्य कामनाओंमें फँसकर आपसमें वैर बाँध लेंगे और एक-दूसरेके प्राण लेनेकी घातमें लगे रहेंगे

Transliteration

vairabaddhā bhaviṣyanti parasparavadhaiṣiṇaḥ |

Translation

Mārkaṇḍeya disse: “Ficarão presos em inimizade mútua, cada qual buscando a destruição do outro.”

Word by Word

• वैरबद्धाः: bound by enmity / having enmity fastened
• वैरबद्धाः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वैरबद्ध
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

• भविष्यन्ति: will become / will be
• Type: Verb
• Root: भू
• Form: Simple Future (Luṭ), Third, Plural

• परस्परवधैषिणः: seeking to kill one another
• परस्परवधैषिणः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: परस्परवधैषिन्
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Plural

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• मार्कण्डेय (Mārkaṇḍeya)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

When knowledge and self-restraint weaken, greed and anger take control; desire then breeds rivalry, and rivalry hardens into enmity that culminates in mutual violence. The verse warns that inner moral collapse becomes outer social destruction.

What is happening in the narrative?

Mārkaṇḍeya is describing a future condition of people: they become locked in feuds and turn into would-be slayers of one another, illustrating the consequences of being driven by uncontrolled passions rather than dharma and discernment.