Shloka 30
Adhyaya 3 — The Dharmapakshis’ Past-Life Curse and Indra’s Test of Truthfulness
क्व मानुषस्य पिशितं क्व वयश्चरमं तव ।
सर्वथा दुष्टभावानां प्रशमो नोपपद्यते ॥
kva mānuṣasya piśitaṃ kva vayaś caramaṃ tava /
sarvathā duṣṭa-bhāvānāṃ praśamo nopapadyate //
«Где человеческая плоть, и где твоя последняя стадия жизни? Во всех отношениях для людей злого нрава умиротворение (или исправление) поистине не наступает».
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FAQs
The verse asserts a hard ethical realism: when a person’s inner disposition is thoroughly corrupted (duṣṭa-bhāva), mere external appeasement or gentle correction (praśama) is unlikely to succeed. It cautions against naïve trust in the reformability of entrenched malice and implies the need for discernment (viveka) and appropriate restraint when dealing with the persistently adharmic.
This verse is not directly about sarga (creation), pratisarga (re-creation), vaṃśa (genealogies), manvantara, or vaṃśānucarita (dynastic histories). It aligns more with the Purana’s ancillary didactic function—dharma-upadeśa (ethical instruction)—which often accompanies the narrative framework but sits outside the strict pañcalakṣaṇa categories.
Symbolically, ‘human flesh’ versus ‘your final age’ can be read as a contrast between gross appetite/violence (piśita—raw consumption) and the ripened culmination of life (carama-vayas—maturity, accountability). The line suggests that if one remains bound to lower impulses even at life’s threshold, inner stillness and transformation (praśama) do not arise—pointing to the necessity of inner purification rather than superficial placation.