Adhyaya 17 — The Birth of Atri’s Three Sons: Soma, Dattatreya, and Durvasa
दृष्ट्वात्रौ कुपितः सद्यो दग्धुकामः स हैहयम् ।
गर्भवासमहायास-दुःखामर्षसमन्वितः ॥
dṛṣṭvātrau kupitaḥ sadyo dagdhukāmaḥ sa haihayam |
garbhavāsamahāyāsa-duḥkhāmarṣasamanvitaḥ ||
तं दृष्ट्वा अत्रेः सुतः सद्यः क्रुद्धोऽभवत्, तं हैहयं दग्धुम् इच्छन्। गर्भवासजन्येन महाक्लेशदुःखोत्थेन रोषेण स परिपूर्णः।
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Suffering can transmute into indignation; the verse warns that pain, when not integrated, becomes destructive impulse. In Purāṇic ethics, power must be tempered by restraint, otherwise it scorches rather than corrects.
Vaṃśānucarita, with a didactic exemplum about the dangerous efficacy of tapas and the peril of offending the holy.
‘Womb-dwelling hardship’ can symbolize the jīva’s confinement in prakṛti; the resulting ‘amarṣa’ mirrors the impulse to break limitation—either as liberation or as rage.