Shloka 31
Adhyaya 62 — The Fire-God Enters the Brahmin Youth; Varuthini’s Love-Sickness and Kali’s Disguise
वरूथिन्युवाच
एवं भवतु भद्रन्ते यथेच्छसि तथास्तु तत् ।
मया सर्वप्रकारं हि वशे स्थेयं तवाधुना ॥
varūthiny uvāca evaṃ bhavatu bhadrante yathecchasi tathāstu tat / mayā sarva-prakāraṃ hi vaśe stheyaṃ tavādhunā
วรูถินีกล่าวว่า “ขอให้เป็นเช่นนั้นเถิด ท่านผู้ประเสริฐ; ตามที่ท่านปรารถนาให้เป็นไปเถิด บัดนี้ข้าพเจ้าจะอยู่ใต้อำนาจของท่านทุกประการ”
FAQs
Purāṇic narratives often stress that major life outcomes (especially lineage) follow from explicit choices; here the assent to a condition becomes the hinge on which the subsequent birth-story turns.
Manvantara context, feeding into Vaṃśānucarita (life-history of the forthcoming child and his naming), since these verses set up the conception.
Submission ‘to another’s will’ can be read symbolically as the psyche yielding to a dominant saṃskāra; the story then externalizes the inner consequence as an embodied birth.