Shloka 9

समुद्रवर्णनम् (Description of the Ocean) — Kadrū and Vinatā approach the sea

Devanagari script

ततो वैरविनिर्बन्ध: कृतो राहुमुखेन वै । शाश्वतश्रन्द्रसूर्या भ्यां ग्रसत्यद्यापि चैव तौ,तभीसे राहुके मुखने चन्द्रमा और सूर्यके साथ भारी एवं स्थायी वैर बाँध लिया; इसीलिये वह आज भी दोनोंपर ग्रहण लगाता है

Transliteration

tato vairavinirbandhaḥ kṛto rāhumukhena vai | śāśvataś candrasūryābhyāṃ grasaty adyāpi caiva tau ||

Translation

అప్పటినుంచి రాహువు తన నోటితోనే చంద్రసూర్యులతో ఘోరమైన, శాశ్వతమైన వైరం కట్టుకున్నాడు. అందుకే అతడు ఇప్పటికీ వారిద్దరినీ గ్రసిస్తాడు—అదే గ్రహణం.

Word by Word

ततःthen, thereafter

वैर-विनिर्बन्धःa binding/formation of enmity

कृतःmade, done

राहु-मुखेनby/with Rahu's mouth

वैindeed, surely

शाश्वत-चन्द्र-सूर्याभ्याम्with the eternal Moon and Sun (i.e., against them)

ग्रसतिswallows, devours (eclipses)

अद्यापिeven today, still

चand

एवindeed, just

तौthose two (Moon and Sun)

Speaker

शौनक उवाच

Characters & Entities

Rāhu

Candra (Moon)

Sūrya (Sun)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Cross References

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights how deliberately cultivated enmity (vaira-vinirbandha) can become enduring and repeatedly destructive; ethically, it cautions against fixing one’s identity around hatred, since its consequences can persist and recur.

What is happening in the narrative?

Śaunaka explains that Rāhu established a lasting feud with the Moon and the Sun and therefore continues to seize them even now—an etiological explanation for eclipses (grahaṇa) in the epic’s mythic framework.