Shloka 18
Adhyaya 63 — The Birth of Svarocis and the Rescue of Manoramā: The Astra-Heart and the Healing of Curses
तस्मात्त्वामचिरेणैव राक्षसोऽभिभविष्यसि । दत्ते शापे मत्सखीभ्यां स तु निर्भत्सितो मुनिः ॥
tasmāt tvām acireṇaiva rākṣaso 'bhibhaviṣyasi / datte śāpe matsakhībhyāṃ sa tu nirbhatsito muniḥ
तस्मात् चिरान्न त्वां राक्षसः कश्चिदभिभविष्यति। शापे दत्ते तदा तं मुनिं मम सख्यौ द्वे अपशब्दैर्निन्दितवत्यौ॥
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FAQs
The curse frames a karmic pedagogy: disrespect toward tapas invites a force that ‘overpowers’ (abhibhava)—symbolically, lower impulses or hostile forces dominate when reverence and self-control collapse.
Ākhyāna supporting dharma instruction; not a direct manvantara or creation account, but a moral-causal narrative typical of puranic composition.
The Rākṣasa can be read as the externalization of inner disorder unleashed by aparādha. The friends’ reviling of the sage shows secondary complicity—how group dynamics amplify adharma, deepening consequences.