Shloka 29
Adhyaya 63 — The Birth of Svarocis and the Rescue of Manoramā: The Astra-Heart and the Healing of Curses
मार्कण्डेय उवाच तथैत्यूक्ते ततस्तेन वार्युपस्पृश्य तस्य तत् ।
अस्त्राणां हृदयं प्रादात् सरहस्यनिवर्तनम् ॥
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca tathaityukte tatastena vāryupaspṛśya tasya tat | astrāṇāṃ hṛdayaṃ prādāt sarahasyanivartanam
மார்கண்டேயர் கூறினார்—இவ்வாறு சொல்லி அவர் சுத்திக்காக நீரைத் தொட்டு, அவனுக்கு ஆயுதங்களின் ‘ஹ்ருதயம்’ (மறைசாரம்) மற்றும் பிரத்யாஹார/ஸந்நியாசத்தின் ரகசிய முறையையும் அளித்தார்।
FAQs
Power must be paired with restraint: the ‘withdrawal’ of an astra is taught as carefully as its release. Purity (water-touching) frames transmission of potent knowledge as a dhārmic act, not a merely technical one.
Manvantara: it belongs to the manvantara-episodes describing events and exemplars within a Manu’s era, rather than sarga/pratisarga cosmogenesis.
‘Hṛdaya’ signals an inner key: mastery is not just external force but the inward command that can both project and retract energies—symbolically, disciplined mind controlling its own ‘weapons’ (impulses).