Shloka 8
Adhyaya 6 — Balarama’s Dilemma, Drunken Wanderings in Revata’s Grove, and the Slaying of the Suta
स्त्रीकदम्बकमध्यस्थो ययौ मत्तः पदास्खलन् ।
ददर्श च वनं वीरो रमणीयमनुत्तमम् ॥
strī-kadambaka-madhyastho yayau mattaḥ padā skhalan |
dadarśa ca vanaṃ vīro ramaṇīyam anuttamam ||
ยืนอยู่ท่ามกลางหมู่นารี ชายผู้มึนเมานั้นเดินต่อไปด้วยก้าวที่เซไปมา; และวีรบุรุษได้เห็นพนาลัยอันรื่นรมย์ยิ่ง งามล้ำไร้ผู้เสมอเหมือน।
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FAQs
The verse contrasts impaired agency (mattaḥ, stumbling) with the immediate pull of sensory beauty (the ‘unsurpassed’ forest). It quietly signals how intoxication—whether literal or driven by desire—destabilizes discernment, even as the world’s allure continues to attract the mind.
It does not directly present sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita data; it belongs to vaṃśānucarita-style narrative movement only in a loose sense (storytelling about persons), functioning primarily as scene-setting rather than a pancalakṣaṇa unit.
Symbolically, the ‘forest’ (vana) can represent the complex field of experience into which the embodied hero enters. ‘Stumbling while surrounded by women’ can be read as the jīva’s wavering steps amid sense-objects (viṣaya), just before encountering a potent setting where deeper events (instruction, encounter, or transformation) may unfold.