Shloka 13
आदि पर्व, अध्याय 67 — गान्धर्वविवाह-समयः
Duḥṣanta–Śakuntalā: Gandharva Marriage and Succession Condition
उग्रसेन इति ख्यात उग्रकर्मा नराधिप: । यस्त्वश्व इति विख्यात: श्रीमानासीन्महासुर:
vaiśampāyana uvāca |
ugrasena iti khyāta ugra-karmā narādhipaḥ |
yas tv aśva iti vikhyātaḥ śrīmān āsīn mahāsuraḥ ||
ไวศัมปายนะกล่าวว่า “มีกษัตริย์มนุษย์ผู้หนึ่งเป็นที่รู้จักว่า ‘อุครเสนะ’ ผู้ประกอบกรรมอันดุร้าย และมหาสุระผู้รุ่งเรืองซึ่งเคยมีนามว่า ‘อัศวะ’ ก็ได้อุบัติในโลกมนุษย์นี้ (ในรูปแห่งราชา) ด้วย”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse participates in the epic’s moral-cosmic framing of history: powerful beings (here, Asuras) manifest in the human realm as kings, implying that political power and character are shaped by prior nature and karma, and that worldly events reflect a larger cosmic order.
Vaiśampāyana continues a catalog describing how certain Asuras are born on earth as human rulers. In this specific line, he identifies a human king named Ugrasena as famed for fierce deeds, and links him with a splendid great Asura known as ‘Aśva’.