Shloka 22

Adhyaya 75 — Slaying of Mahishasura

Sanskrit

रेवत्यृक्षञ्च पतितं कुमुदाद्रौ समन्ततः ।

भावयामास सहसा वनकन्दरनिर्झरम् ॥

Transliteration

revatyṛkṣañ ca patitaṃ kumudādrau samantataḥ / bhāvayāmāsa sahasā vanakandaranirjharam

Translation

และเรวตีในรูปหมีนั้น ครั้นตกลงบนเขากุมุทะแล้ว ก็พลันบันดาลให้โดยรอบเกิดป่า ถ้ำ และลำธารขึ้นในทันที

Word by Word

• revatyṛkṣam: the Revatī-asterism
• revatyṛkṣam: Karma (कर्म/object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: revatī + ṛkṣa (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः

• ca: and
• ca: Sambandha (सम्बन्ध/connector)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ca (अव्यय)
• Form: समुच्चयार्थक-अव्यय (conjunction)

• patitam: fallen
• patitam: Visheshana (विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: √pat (पत्) (कृदन्त)
• Form: भूतकृदन्त (past participle), नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; revatyṛkṣam qualifies

• kumudādrau: on Mount Kumuda
• kumudādrau: Adhikarana (अधिकरण/location)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kumuda + adri (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, सप्तमी (7th/Locative), एकवचन; षष्ठी-तत्पुरुषः (kumudasya adriḥ)

• samantataḥ: all around
• samantataḥ: Kriya-visheshana (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: samantataḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: देशवाचक-अव्यय (adverb of place)

• bhāvayāmāsa: caused to arise/produced
• bhāvayāmāsa: Kriya (क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: √bhū (भू) caus. √bhāvaya (भावय)
• Form: लिट् (Perfect), प्रथमपुरुष, एकवचन, परस्मैपद; णिच् (causative): ‘caused to become/produced’

• sahasā: suddenly
• sahasā: Kriya-visheshana (क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: sahasā (अव्यय)
• Form: क्रियाविशेषण-अव्यय (adverb)

• vana-kandara-nirjharam: a forest-cave waterfall/stream
• vana-kandara-nirjharam: Karma (कर्म/object)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vana + kandara + nirjhara (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, द्वितीया (2nd/Accusative), एकवचन; बहुपद-तत्पुरुषः: ‘vanasya kandarāyāṃ nirjharaḥ’ (waterfall in a forest-cave)

Speakers

• Markandeya narrating

Verse Rasa

{ "primaryRasa": "adbhuta", "secondaryRasa": "shanta", "rasaIntensity": 0, "emotionalArcPosition": "", "moodDescriptors": [] }

Key Themes

• Etiology of sacred geography
• Nature as consequence of narrative events
• Metamorphosis into landscape

FAQs

What is the philosophical or ethical takeaway?

Purāṇic thought links moral/narrative causality with the world’s features: geography is not inert but meaningful, carrying memory of events and serving as a didactic landscape.

How does this fit the Pancalakṣaṇa (5 characteristics)?

Not sarga/pratisarga; this is tīrtha/kshetra-etiology within the broader purāṇic narrative tradition, adjacent to Vamśānucarita (accounts of persons leading to place-features).

What is the esoteric significance?

Forests, caves, and springs symbolize latent spiritual resources (guha = inner cave; nirjhara = flowing prāṇa/insight) emerging when a being’s state ‘grounds’ into the earth-plane.