Shloka 29
बकवधोत्तर-प्रशमनम् | Post-slaying Stabilization after Baka’s Death
त्रास्यामि त्वां महाबाहो राक्षसात् पुरुषादकात् | वत्स्यावो गिरिदुर्गेषु भर्ता भव ममानघ,“महाबाहो! मैं इस नरभक्षी राक्षससे आपकी रक्षा करूँगी। हम दोनों पर्वतोंकी दुर्गम कन्दराओंमें निवास करेंगे। अनघ! आप मेरे पति हो जाइये
trāsyāmi tvāṃ mahābāho rākṣasāt puruṣādakāt | vatsyāvo giridurgeṣu bhartā bhava mamānagha ||
Sinabi ni Vaiśampāyana: “O makapangyarihang may malalakas na bisig! Aking ipagtatanggol ka laban sa rākṣasa na kumakain ng tao. Manahan tayo nang magkasama sa mga kuta sa kabundukan at sa mga yungib na mahirap marating. O walang dungis, maging asawa kita.”
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse foregrounds protection and mutual refuge as a basis for alliance: in a threatening wilderness context, the speaker offers safety and a shared life, framing marriage as both companionship and responsibility (bhartā as protector/support).
A woman addresses a heroic figure (“mahābāhu”), promising to save him from a man-eating rākṣasa and proposing that they live together in remote mountain strongholds; she asks him to accept her as his wife by becoming her husband.