Shloka 8

Devanagari script

योष्ष्टमासांस्तु शुचिना किरणेनोक्षितं पय: । प्रत्यादत्ते पुनः काले किमाश्चर्यमत: परम्‌

Transliteration

yoṣṭamāsāṁstu śucinā kiraṇenokṣitaṁ payaḥ | pratyādatte punaḥ kāle kimāścaryamataḥ param ||

Translation

నాగుడు అన్నాడు— సూర్యుని పవిత్ర కిరణాలు ఎనిమిది నెలలు తాకి పరిపక్వమైన పాలు, తరువాత తగిన కాలంలో మళ్లీ తిరిగి ఇవ్వబడతాయి. దీనికన్నా గొప్ప ఆశ్చర్యం ఇంకేముంది?

Word by Word

योःof which/whose

अष्टमासान्eight months (for)

तुbut/indeed

शुचिनाby/with a pure

किरणेनray (of light)

उक्षितम्sprinkled/moistened

पयःmilk/water

प्रत्यादत्तेtakes back/receives back

पुनःagain

कालेin time/at the proper time

किम्what

आश्चर्यम्wonder/marvel

अतःthan this/from this

परम्greater/further

Speaker

नाग उवाच

Characters & Entities

Nāga (speaker)

sun rays (kiraṇa)

milk (payaḥ)

time/season (kāla)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse points to the marvel of natural processes governed by orderly time (kāla): what is taken up and transformed by the sun’s rays is returned in season. It invites humility and reflection—nature itself demonstrates a larger, dependable order beyond human control.

What is happening in the narrative?

A Nāga speaker offers an example from the natural world—milk being ‘touched’ by pure rays for months and then ‘returned’ in due time—as a rhetorical proof of something astonishing, using the image to strengthen a philosophical point about the world’s wondrous, ordered functioning.