Shloka 19

Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu

Sanskrit

न तेऽपचारो नैवास्य मातुर्नायं कुलस्य ते ।

तस्य दौःशील्यहेतुस्तु रेवत्यन्तमुपागतम् ॥

Transliteration

na te 'pacāro naivāsya māturnāyaṃ kulasya te / tasya dauḥśīlyahetus tu revatyantam upāgatam

Translation

«Нет вины ни на тебе, ни на матери, и это не вина твоего рода. Напротив, причина того дурного поведения пала на Реватьянту (Revatyanta)»

Word by Word

• na: not
• na: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/Discourse particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (अव्यय)
• Form: निषेधार्थक-अव्यय (negative particle)

• te: of you/your
• te: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/possessor)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम (pronoun), षष्ठी/सम्बोधन-सम्भाव्य; here: षष्ठी एकवचन (Genitive singular)

• apacāraḥ: offence, wrongdoing
• apacāraḥ: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: apacāra (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• na: not
• na: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (अव्यय)
• Form: निषेधार्थक-अव्यय

• eva: indeed/just
• eva: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/emphasis)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: eva (अव्यय)
• Form: अवधारणार्थक-अव्यय (emphatic particle)

• asya: of this (person)/his
• asya: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/possessor)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन

• mātuḥ: of (his) mother
• mātuḥ: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/possessor)
• Type: Noun
• Root: mātṛ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन

• na: not
• na: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (अव्यय)
• Form: निषेधार्थक-अव्यय

• ayam: this (one)
• ayam: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: idam (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन

• kulasya: of the family/lineage
• kulasya: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/possessor)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kula (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन

• te: of you/your
• te: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/possessor)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tvad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन

• tasya: of that (one)/his
• tasya: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/possessor)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सर्वनाम, षष्ठी (6th/Genitive), एकवचन

• dauḥśīlyahetuḥ: the cause of bad conduct
• dauḥśīlyahetuḥ: Karta (कर्ता/subject)
• Type: Noun
• Root: dauḥśīlya + hetu (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st/Nominative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (dauḥśīlyasya hetuḥ)

• tu: but/indeed
• tu: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/particle)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: tu (अव्यय)
• Form: विरोध/विशेषणार्थक-अव्यय (adversative particle)

• revatyantam: Revatyanta (name)
• revatyantam: Karma (कर्म/object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: revatyanta (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; proper name

• upāgatam: having come/reached
• upāgatam: Kriya (क्रिया/predicative)
• Type: Verb
• Root: upa-√gam (गम्) (कृदन्त)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (past participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग/पुंलिङ्ग-द्वितीया एकवचन; here agreeing with implied ‘hetuḥ’ sense: ‘has come/has reached’ (उप + गम्)

Speakers

• Contextual speaker not explicitly marked in this verse (continues a narrative exchange preceding Ṛtavāgu’s speech in v.20)

Verse Rasa

{ "primaryRasa": "shanta", "secondaryRasa": "karuna", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }

Key Themes

• Karmic causality
• Blame vs. true cause
• Curse as moral-etiological device

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

The verse separates apparent blame from underlying causality: moral disorder (dauḥśīlya) is attributed to a specific causal locus (Revatyanta), not indiscriminately to mother or clan. It models careful ethical attribution rather than collective condemnation.

How does this fit the Pancalakṣaṇa (5 characteristics)?

Primarily Vamśānucarita (accounts of lineages/persons) and a narrative setup for an etiological event; it is not sarga/pratisarga proper, but belongs to the Purāṇic biographical-etiological storytelling mode.

What is the esoteric significance?

‘Dauḥśīlya’ is treated as a transmissible condition with a definable ‘arrival’ (upāgata), hinting at subtle causation (saṃskāra/karma) that manifests through particular nodes rather than uniformly across relations.