Shloka 60

Devanagari script

अथ किंचिदपश्यन्तौ दानवौ मधुकैटभौ । पुनराजम्मतुस्तत्र वेगितौ पश्यतां च तो

Transliteration

atha kiñcid apaśyantau dānavau madhukaiṭabhau | punar ājagmatustatra vegitau paśyatāṃ ca tau ||

Translation

ต่อมา มธุและไกฏภะ—อสูรดานวะทั้งสอง—เมื่อไม่เห็นสิ่งใดสำคัญ ก็รีบเร่งกลับไปยังที่เดิมด้วยความเร็ว ทั้งที่ผู้คนกำลังเฝ้ามองอยู่

Word by Word

• अथ: then
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अथ

• किञ्चित्: something, anything
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: किञ्चित्

• अपश्यन्तौ: they two saw
• Type: Verb
• Root: पश्य्
• Form: लङ् (imperfect), परस्मैपदम्, 3, dual

• दानवौ: the two demons (Danavas)
• दानवौ: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: दानव
• Form: masculine, nominative, dual

• मधुकैटभौ: Madhu and Kaitabha
• मधुकैटभौ: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: मधु + कैटभ
• Form: masculine, nominative, dual

• पुनः: again
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: पुनः

• आजग्मतुः: they two came/returned
• Type: Verb
• Root: गम्
• Form: लिट् (perfect), परस्मैपदम्, 3, dual

• तत्र: there
• तत्र: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तत्र

• वेगितौ: swift, impetuous
• वेगितौ: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वेगित
• Form: masculine, nominative, dual

• पश्यताम्: of (those) watching
• Type: Verb
• Root: पश्य्
• Form: शतृ (present active participle), masculine/neuter, genitive, plural

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च

• तौ: those two
• तौ: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: masculine, nominative, dual

Speaker

वैशग्पायन उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vaiśaṃpāyana
• Madhu
• Kaiṭabha
• Dānava

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse hints that lack of true discernment (apaśyantau) leads beings driven by impulse (vegitau) to repeat the same misguided return, illustrating how delusion sustains adharmic patterns rather than enabling a wiser, dharmic choice.

What is happening in the narrative?

Madhu and Kaiṭabha, finding nothing (or failing to perceive anything) where they are, rush back again to the same place; the narrator notes this return occurs while they are being observed.