Shloka 8
बदरपाचन-तीर्थमाहात्म्यम् | Badarapācana Tīrtha Māhātmya
Indratīrtha and the Austerities of Srucāvatī & Arundhatī
समुद्रोडयं तव वशे भविष्यति नदीपति: । सोमेन सार्थ च तव हानिवृद्धी भविष्यत:
samudroḍayaṁ tava vaśe bhaviṣyati nadīpatiḥ | somena sārtha ca tava hānivṛddhī bhaviṣyataḥ ||
वैशम्पायन उवाच—नदीपतिः समुद्रः स-ऊर्मिः तव वशे भविष्यति। सोमेन सह च तव हानिवृद्धी—क्षयश्च समृद्धिश्च—वशवर्तिन्यौ भविष्यतः॥
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse frames sovereignty as mastery over fluctuation: even forces that naturally wax and wane—tides and the Moon’s cycles, symbolic of gain and loss—are presented as subject to disciplined control, implying steadiness amid changing fortune.
Vaiśampāyana reports a prophetic assurance or blessing addressed to a person of power: the ocean’s tides and the alternating conditions of prosperity and decline (linked with Soma’s waxing and waning) are declared to be under that person’s command.