Shloka 49
Adhyaya 63 — The Birth of Svarocis and the Rescue of Manoramā: The Astra-Heart and the Healing of Curses
यन्मयोक्तमवश्यं तद्भावि गन्धर्व ! नान्यथा ।
किन्तु त्वं राक्षसो भूत्वा पुनः स्वं प्राप्स्यसे वपुः ॥
yan mayoktam avaśyaṃ tad bhāvi gandharva! nānyathā | kintu tvaṃ rākṣaso bhūtvā punaḥ svaṃ prāpsyase vapuḥ ||
“O que eu disse certamente se cumprirá, ó Gandharva — não pode haver outro desfecho. Contudo, tendo-te tornado um Rākṣasa, voltarás a recuperar o teu próprio corpo.”
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FAQs
Speech acts (especially curses/boons) are treated as morally and cosmically binding, yet dharma allows a punitive consequence to be tempered with a path of return—suggesting that even when consequences are fixed, redemption remains possible.
Primarily not pancalakṣaṇa material; it belongs to ākhyāna (narrative exemplum) used to teach dharma/karma rather than sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita.
The ‘Rākṣasa’ state can symbolize a descent into tamas (darkness) caused by afflicted mind, while the promise of regaining one’s true ‘vapuḥ’ indicates the possibility of recovering one’s sattvic identity after purification.