Shloka 29

Kṛṣṇasya Dvārakā-praveśaḥ — Krishna’s Return to Dvārakā and the Raivataka Festival

Devanagari script

तस्य वेगमसहां तमसहन्ती वसुन्धरा । दण्डकाष्ठाभिनुन्नाज़ी चचाल भृूशमाकुला,उनके उस असह्ा वेगको पृथ्वी भी नहीं सह सकी। वह डंडेकी चोटसे घायल एवं अत्यन्त व्याकुल होकर डगमगाने लगी

Transliteration

tasya vegam asahāṁ tam asahantī vasundharā | daṇḍakāṣṭhābhinunnāśī cacāla bhṛśam ākulā ||

Translation

అతని ఆ అసహ్య వేగాన్ని భూమి కూడా భరించలేకపోయింది. దండప్రహారంతో గాయపడిన ఆమె అత్యంత వ్యాకులమై బలంగా కంపించి తూలసాగింది—లోకధర్మపు పునాదులే కదిలినట్లు।

Word by Word

तस्यof him/its

वेगम्speed, force, impetus

असहाम्unbearable (fem.)

तम्that (him/it)

सहन्तीbearing, enduring

वसुन्धराthe earth

दण्डकाष्ठाभिनुन्नाstruck/impelled by a staff-stick

चand

चचालshook, moved, reeled

भृशम्greatly, exceedingly

आकुलाagitated, distressed

Speaker

वैशम्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

Vaiśampāyana

Vasundharā (Earth)

Daṇḍakāṣṭha (wooden staff)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse frames excessive, uncontrolled force as ethically destabilizing: when power becomes violent compulsion (daṇḍa without restraint), it disrupts even the Earth—an image for the shaking of dharma and social order.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vaiśampāyana narrates that the Earth (vasundharā) cannot bear the intensity of a certain being’s rush/force; struck by a wooden staff, she becomes wounded and violently trembles in agitation, functioning as a dramatic portent within the episode.