Shloka 13

Vyāsa’s Arrival at Janamejaya’s Sarpasatra; Commissioning of Vaiśaṃpāyana’s Recital (व्यासागमनम्)

Devanagari script

ब्रह्मोवाच जरत्कारुर्जरत्कारुं यां भार्या समवाप्स्यति । तत्र जातो द्विज:ः शापान्मोक्षयिष्यति पन्नगान्‌,ब्रह्माजीने कहा--जरत्कारु मुनि जरत्कारु नामवाली जिस पत्नीको ग्रहण करेंगे, उसके गर्भसे उत्पन्न ब्राह्मण सर्पोंको माताके शापसे मुक्त करेगा

Transliteration

brahmovāca jaratkārur jaratkāruṁ yāṁ bhāryā samavāpsyati | tatra jāto dvijaḥ śāpān mokṣayiṣyati pannagān ||

Translation

พระพรหมตรัสว่า—“ฤๅษีชรัตการุจักได้ภรรยานามว่า ‘ชรัตการุ’ จากนางนั้นจักบังเกิดบุตรผู้เป็นทวิชะ ผู้จะปลดปล่อยหมู่นาคให้พ้นจากคำสาปของมารดา”

Word by Word

ब्रह्माBrahmā

उवाचsaid

जरत्कारुःJaratkāru (the sage)

जरत्कारुम्Jaratkāru (the woman, name of the wife)

याम्whom

भार्याम्as wife

समवाप्स्यतिwill obtain/receive

तत्रthere; in her (womb/line)

जातःborn

द्विजःa brāhmaṇa (twice-born)

शापात्from the curse

मोक्षयिष्यतिwill free/release

पन्नगान्serpents

Speaker

आस्तीक उवाच

Characters & Entities

Brahmā

Jaratkāru (sage)

Jaratkāru (wife)

Dvija (the future brāhmaṇa son, i.e., Āstīka by implication)

Pannagas (serpents/nāgas)

Mother’s curse (mātṛ-śāpa; implied)

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse presents dharma as responsibility toward others: marriage and progeny are undertaken to avert harm and to liberate beings suffering under a curse, showing that personal life-choices can be ethically oriented toward collective welfare.

What is happening in the narrative?

Brahmā foretells that the sage Jaratkāru will marry a woman of the same name, and that their son—born a brāhmaṇa—will later free the serpents from a maternal curse, setting up the future intervention that saves the nāgas.