Shloka 6

Rāma–Jāmadagnya-janma-kāraṇa and Kṣatra-kṣaya

Paraśurāma’s origins and the depletion/restoration of kṣatriya lineages

Devanagari script

पुत्रत्वमगमद्‌ राजंस्तस्य लोकेश्चरेश्वर: । गाधिनामाभवत् पुत्र: कौशिक: पाकशासन:,उनकी भयंकर तपस्या देखकर और उन्हें शक्तिशाली पुत्र उत्पन्न करनेमें समर्थ जानकर लोकपालोंके स्वामी सहस्र नेत्रोंवाले पाकशासन इन्द्र स्वयं ही उनके पुत्ररूपमें अवतीर्ण हुए। राजन्‌! कुशिकका वह पुत्र गाधिनामसे प्रसिद्ध हुआ

Transliteration

putratvam agamad rājaṁs tasya lokeś-careśvaraḥ | gādhināmābhavat putraḥ kauśikaḥ pākaśāsanaḥ ||

Translation

วายุกล่าวว่า “โอ้พระราชา เจ้าแห่งเหล่าโลกบาลได้ยอมรับฐานะเป็นบุตรของเขา อินทร์ผู้ปราบปากะได้บังเกิดเป็นบุตรแห่งสายกุศิกะ และเป็นที่รู้จักด้วยนามว่า ‘คาธิ’”

Word by Word

• {'putratvam': 'sonship

• the state/role of being a son', 'agamat': 'attained

• came to (entered into)', 'rājan': 'O king (vocative address)', 'tasya': 'of him

• for him', 'lokeśa': 'lord of the worlds

• ruler among world-protectors', 'cara-īśvaraḥ (careśvaraḥ)': 'lord of the moving beings / sovereign (epithet indicating supreme rulership)', 'gādhi-nāmā': 'named Gādhi

• bearing the name Gādhi', 'abhavat': 'became', 'putraḥ': 'son', 'kauśikaḥ': 'of the Kuśika lineage

• descendant of Kuśika', 'pākaśāsanaḥ': '‘chastiser of Pāka’

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyu (Vāyudeva)
• Indra (Pākaśāsana, Sahasranetra implied)
• Gādhi
• Kuśika (lineage reference)
• Lokapālas (guardians of the worlds, implied collective)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse highlights the Mahābhārata theme that intense tapas and merit can draw even cosmic powers into one’s lineage: divine authority submits to the moral-spiritual force of ascetic discipline, resulting in an extraordinary birth that serves dharmic purposes.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyu explains to the king that Indra—lord among the world-guardians, famed as Pākaśāsana—took birth as the son in the Kuśika line and became known as Gādhi, indicating a divine incarnation into a human genealogy.